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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting feedback through Mar. 6 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 31 – Instruments – Fuse Cover Attachment of Circuit Breaker Panel – Modification.

The OEM is proposing two concepts for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities (NGRC) program in partnership with Collins Aerospace and Raytheon—a high-performance conventional and a high-speed compound helicopter.

The air medical operator prepared 33 new doctors to join its network across Queensland at the LifeFlight Training Academy at Brisbane Airport (YBBN).

The service bulletin introduces a new cyclic stop window that reduces the aft-cyclic travel after Bell determined that high-amplitude, rapid fore-and-aft cyclic inputs while hovering increase the risk of rotor-to-airframe contact.

The new Loft H125 simulator is located within the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters at Marseille Provence Airport (LFML) in France.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which becomes effective Mar. 10, 2026, requires repetitive inspections of the pyrotechnical cartridge. It also prohibits installing an affected pyrotechnical cartridge on any helicopter without first meeting certain requirements. The FAA is accepting comments about the AD through Apr. 9, 2026.

The FAA is accepting comments through Apr. 9, 2026, on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require performing a functional test of the personal locator beacon and inspecting the rope connection to the emergency life raft system.

A LifeFlight Australia crew based in Sunshine Coast, Queensland, airlifted the hiker Feb. 22 from Mount Coolum.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Mar. 10, 2026, will supersede AD 2025-07-06, issued Jan. 2, 2025. The updated AD retains the actions required in the existing AD while extending the definition of an affected part to include all serial-numbered nonrotating scissors spherical bearings. The updated AD also prohibits installing affected rotating and nonrotating scissors spherical bearings without first meeting certain requirements.

VAI expressed strong support for the Airspace Location and Enhanced Risk Transparency (ALERT) Act of 2026 in a Feb. 20 letter to the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The bipartisan legislation responds to the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) final report on the Jan. 29, 2025, midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA).