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(Helicopter Investor) – According to the company’s first quarter 2025 financial results, Airbus generated US$1.8 billion from its helicopters segment, up 10% year over year.

(KPTV) – The Banks Fire Department hosted multiple local agencies for logger safety training on May 1. The exercise included rescue demonstrations from the Oregon National Guard and a Life Flight Network helicopter crew.

(Vertical magazine) – Now that more light helicopters are being certificated for IFR—including the Airbus H125—operators need to provide actual instrument flight experience for pilots operating these machines, contends Woody McClendon, a longtime pilot and former Boeing flight test engineer.

(Australian Broadcasting Corp.) – A helicopter went down May 2 on a beach between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove in Victoria.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires repetitive inspections and potential replacement of the inclined and horizontal driveshaft flanges, takes effect Jun. 6. The AD also prohibits installing certain inclined and horizontal driveshafts unless certain requirements are met, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency AD.

The company will establish a base at Duluth International Airport (KDLH) to serve St. Louis County and the Arrowhead Region.

The companies extinguished propane and brush fires using a Black Hawk equipped with Sikorsky’s Matrix flight autonomy system and Rain’s wildfire support planning software during tests late last month in Southern California.

Bell Textron has delivered two Bell 407GXis to the Helicopter Operations Unit of the Chicago Police Department in Illinois.

(GlobeNewswire) – An Aeromed helicopter crew from Tampa General Hospital participated in a recent Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) emergency response training event with local first responders at the UMA campus in Tampa, Florida.

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