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(ABC News) – The country’s government announced Aug. 20 a new NZ$2.7 billion (US$1.6 billion) military spending package to replace aging helicopters. The funding includes plans to purchase helicopters from the United States, according to senior officials.

(CBC) – Helicopter crews last weekend airlifted more than 60 people from Bugaboo Provincial Park in British Columbia (BC), Canada, after flooding made the area unsafe for hikers and campers.

(WBBH) – A Lee County Mosquito Control pilot explains why helicopter crews are flying at low altitudes this month around Estero.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has received a $43 million US Army contract to modernize the UH-60 Black Hawk, including upgrading the airframe, adding a digital backbone for unmanned aircraft system integration, and using model-based systems engineering to increase performance and reduce costs.

(Urban Air Mobility News) – Skyportz will collaborate on the development of vertipads for FlyNow Aviation’s eCopter electric air taxi.

The company has raised $24 million from the Friedkin Group with support from Alaska Airlines and other companies. Loft Dynamics will use the funding for its helicopter simulator business and to expand into commercial airline training.

Reiser Simulation and Training has obtained European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) qualification to incorporate Helionix V10 avionics into its H145 D3 simulator.

(Vertical magazine) – The association’s newly appointed leader says it is important that VAI is perceived as a “365-day-a-year value engine for our members.”

The 101st Airborne Division used Recoil’s Expeditionary Fuel Tank during a refueling exercise in the southern United States.