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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 52 – Doors – Sliding/Plugging Cabin Doors – Inspection/Modification, takes effect Sep. 1. It will supersede AD 2015-0167, released Aug. 12, 2015.

Local first responders joined officials from the Air Methods subsidiary to open the new base Aug. 20 in Lockhart.

Volatus Aerospace will provide its Condor XL remotely piloted helicopter for a large-scale Ki aerial seeding project to restore Canadian forests damaged by wildfires.

(The Chilliwack Progress) – Helicopter crews dumped water on the Sailor Bar fire Aug. 24 near Yale, British Columbia (BC), Canada.

(Spectrum News 1) – Honor in the Air tells the story of Scott Alwin, a Wisconsin Army captain who flew five tours during the Vietnam War.

(WCCO) – A Minnesota Air Rescue Team Bell 429 crew hoisted a camper with a medical emergency earlier this month from Voyageurs National Park.

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) Fly Safe campaign is reminding ag pilots that stress, anxiety, and panic experienced from events inside and outside the cockpit can lead to mental fatigue.

(apa) – Local officials are praising the professionalism, composure, and courage of the pilot and officer on board after a Morane 29 firefighting helicopter fell into a pond while scooping water Aug. 24 in Finisterre, Brittany, France.

The Leonardo AW139 crew assisted first responders with hoisting a hiker who fell down an embankment Aug. 23 in Port Tobacco.

(Vertical magazine) – A revised safety notice for Robinson pilots includes explicit instructions to slow down and disengage autopilot upper modes in moderate or greater turbulence.