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Reiser Simulation and Training and the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) will provide Airbus H225M training for Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) air and ground crews.

Career Day was among the Nov. 19 highlights at the Koelnmesse exhibition center in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The Modern Skies Coalition released a statement of support Nov. 19 for proposed US House of Representatives bills that would ensure air traffic controllers and other FAA staff are paid in the event of a future government shutdown. “We strongly support Chairman Moran’s bill (and the House companion bills introduced by Representatives Cohen and Bean) to shield the FAA from funding lapses by allowing the agency to draw from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund during a shutdown,” the coalition says. “We also strongly support the bill introduced by Chairman Graves and Ranking Member Larsen which would draw on monies paid by aviation users to continue critical FAA functions.”

Airbus Helicopters has obtained a contract to deliver an undisclosed number of Flexrotor unmanned vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to the Uzbekistan government.

The Australian helicopter operator is hosting a Nov. 22 career fair in Queensland, where more than 50 youths and their families will have the opportunity to meet McDermott Aviation’s team of technicians to discuss career possibilities.

The FAA Rotorcraft Accident Dashboard covers various metrics, including total accidents, fatal accidents, average accident rates, and average fatal-accident rates.

The FAA is accepting comments through Jan. 5, 2026, on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require modifying an affected window into a serviceable window. It would also prohibit installation of an affected window or door on any helicopter.

The FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Dec. 26, retains the actions of AD 2024-09-02 while adding a requirement to replace certain forward- and aft-float assemblies within 24 months or during the next accomplishment of a certain maintenance task.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Dec. 26, will supersede AD 2019-19-13, issued Oct. 21, 2019. The updated AD will continue to require the actions from the existing AD while expanding the applicability by adding additional part-numbered main-rotor gearboxes, changing the requirement to determine the total hours in service of a certain freewheel shaft, requiring repetitive replacement of the main-rotor gearbox or the right-hand freewheel shaft, changing the requirements for who can replace parts, and expanding the parts installation limitation conditions.

The company completed group flight tests of its Borey unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that highlighted its swarm-control autopilot mode.