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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 67 – Rotors Flight Control – Collective Stick Torque Tube Assembly – Inspection/Replacement, takes effect Mar. 18.

The company has received an FAA supplemental type certificate to install its Foresight MX health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) on the Boeing CH-47D Chinook under a partnership with Columbia Helicopters. PJ Helicopters is the first operator to receive the HUMS system for the CH-47D.

The OEM has renewed a master supply agreement with the California-based company to continue providing Veryon Tracking+ and other products for operators of Airbus helicopters.

The OEM is sharing how the French electricity transmission network operator used an H225 to help extinguish a July 2025 wildfire near Les Pennes-Mirabeau and Marseille.

The German Federal Aviation Office has approved the Entrol simulator, operated by Global Helicopter Service, as a Level 3 flight training device (FTD).

Archer is targeting piloted vertical takeoff and landing aircraft flights later this year under the FAA’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing and Advanced Air Mobility Integration Pilot Program (eIPP), the company noted in its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial results released Mar. 2.

(POWER UP) – Your biggest contribution to safe operations: your personal safety culture.

In this companion article to the March 2026 VAI Spotlight on Safety feature, air ambulance pilot Jessica Meiris explains why, sometimes, the best decision a pilot can make is not to fly.

Roskop, aviation safety coordinator (rotorcraft) for the FAA, is a member of the US Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) Steering Committee and the 2026 recipient of the VAI Salute to Excellence Harold Summers Legacy Award.