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(Syracuse.com) – The FAA has selected Syracuse Hancock International Airport (KSYR) in New York as a test site for a pilot program that will evaluate how to integrate electric aircraft into the US National Airspace System.

Organizations that get safety culture right don’t achieve it by accident, notes the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s (ACSF) Safety Spotlight.

The Business Intelligence Group has named Veryon a recipient of its 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Award. The company is also a platinum winner of the 2026 Pinnacle Awards for AI.

The OEM will display two new helicopters at Booth MD-005B during the April 14–19 event in Lakeland, Florida.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Apr. 30, requires replacement of certain affected bolts on the horizontal control rods of the flight controls with bolts that are eligible for installation. It also prohibits installation of an affected bolt on any helicopter.

Fixed-base operator and ground handling agent Manny Aviation Services is the first industry partner based in Mexico under the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) program.

(CTV News) – A court in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, fined the drone operator CAD$5,000 (US$3,600) for interfering with a wildfire helicopter operation in 2023.

An experienced helicopter pilot and native of Sacramento, California, Brian Seibel is an aviation safety inspector with the FAA’s General Aviation and Commercial Division. He got his first taste of flying in a UH-1 Huey during an ROTC orientation weekend mini-camp at the University of Colorado.

(Cape Town Etc.) – A contract helicopter assisting firefighters went down Mar. 25 after appearing to clip Hout Bay mountain with its main rotor. Both pilots sustained minor injuries.

The Bell Textron team for the US Army’s Flight School Next program includes Textron subsidiary TRU Simulation + Training, DigiFlight, Alpha-1 Aerospace, V2X, Delaware Resource Group, and Semper Fly Helicopters.