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(AVweb) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is working to bolster its drone program with a cloud-based software provider for fleet management, according to a recent federal contract posting.

(Newsweek) – Officials from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) are asking drone operators to stop flying over active-fire sites after crews were forced to ground their aircraft while battling the Line Fire earlier this month in San Bernardino County.

(BBC) – Helicopter crews from Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire and rescue service, airlifted residents trapped by floodwater Sep. 19 near Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna.

(WROC) – Three people avoided injury after a Mercy Flight helicopter pilot reported a malfunction and made an emergency landing Sep. 19 at Canandaigua Airport in Ontario County.

Unmanned aerial vehicle maker UAVOS has obtained a certificate of conformity for its SD-01 servo actuator from a European Union–notified body.

Airbus has published a feature on H145 operator Oya Vendée Hélicoptères, which is assisting with the construction of new offshore wind farms along the western coast of France.

Airbus Helicopters is highlighting the safety features at its rotors and gearboxes workshop in Marignane, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an update that removes the mandate for using full flight simulators for helicopter training, skills tests, and proficiency checks ahead of other flight simulation training devices, including virtual-reality trainers, according to Loft Dynamics.

Investec Aviation Finance will collaborate with Rive Private Investment to support 12 Airbus H135 and Leonardo AW109 helicopters for three different operators in France and Spain.

(WCTV) – City and state leaders introduced a group of new electric-aircraft chargers from Beta Technologies Sep. 18 at Tallahassee International Airport (KTLH) in Leon County.