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VAI has partnered with the Air Charter Safety Foundation to bring VAI members all the benefits of the FAA’s voluntary Aviation Safety Action Program at a below-market cost.

Airbus talks with Custom Helicopters CEO Jed Hansen, who explains the impact the Super Puma is having on the Canadian company’s vital firefighting operations.

Metro Aviation has achieved AS9100 certification, highlighting its commitment to quality, safety, and meeting strict aviation industry standards.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 04 – Time Limits / Maintenance Checks – Airworthiness Limitations Section – Amendment, becomes effective May 7, 2025.

The General Civil Aviation Agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved the design for the planned transformation of the Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal helipad into a hybrid heliport for both helicopter and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operations.

(Vertical HeliCASTS) – At VERTICON 2025 in March, The Helicopter Podcast team explored how drones and helicopters collaborate on missions, featuring Ascent’s new Helius small unmanned aerial vehicle and insights on aerial collaboration.

Avtrain and ANRA Technologies UK have announced a strategic partnership to launch the SORA-Mate platform, an automated Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) risk assessment tool for the United Kingdom (UK) drone market.

When power is lost to the main-rotor system, the very first thing a pilot must do is apply aft, or back, cyclic. This is the lesson legendary rotorcraft flight instructor Pete Gillies shares in his “Cyclic Back” lecture, given industrywide–and via a 13-min. video presentation in this webinar. His advice comes from years of examining […]

In this video, I’ll walk you through some highlights of our recent accomplishments on your behalf, including how VAI was able to mobilize our members to send 96,000 emails to keep open an important heliport in New York City. Or how VAI stopped a Hawaii bill that would have required that state’s air tour operators […]