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VAI Daily

Sep. 11, 2025

Airbus program manager maps out future for H145 platform

Airbus Helicopters has published a Q&A with Daniela Dudek, H145 head of program, about developments with military and commercial variants of the helicopter.

VAI Daily

Sep. 10, 2025

Uber to offer Blade service through expanded Joby partnership

Joby Aviation has reached an agreement to launch Blade helicopter flights on the Uber app as early as next year. Joby purchased Blade’s passenger-carrying business in August.

VAI Daily

Sep. 10, 2025

Final FAA AD: Bell Textron Canada 505

The FAA is accepting comments through Oct. 27 on this airworthiness directive (AD), which would require a one-time visual inspection for cracks in the mounting bracket on the oil cooler fan assembly housing, as well as a modification of the mounting bracket. The AD takes effect Sep. 25.

VAI Daily

Sep. 10, 2025

Final FAA AD: Leonardo A109 series, A119, and AW119 MkII

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Sep. 25, requires repetitive inspections of certain swashplate nuts for cracks, fretting, or slippage marks, as well as replacement, if necessary. The FAA is accepting comments on the AD through Oct. 27.

VAI Daily

Sep. 9, 2025

VAI Member Spotlight: Onboard Systems Hoist & Winch, California, USA

The company provides mission equipment, including hoists and winches, for search-and-rescue and human external cargo helicopter operators. Read this story to learn how YOUR VAI member company can be in the Spotlight!

Events

Sep. 9, 2025

VERTICON 2026

VAI Daily

Sep. 9, 2025

Opinion: NASA cuts imperil vertical flight technology leadership

(Forbes) – A proposal to reduce the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) budget by 24%, if approved in Congress, would be disastrous for American scientific leadership in advanced air mobility and vertical flight aeronautics, argues Mike Hirschberg.

VAI Daily

Sep. 9, 2025

Motorsport and helicopter aviation – not so different

Chris Hill, VAI senior director of safety, explains how the vertical aviation community can draw safety lessons from the motorsport industry in the latest edition of the United States Helicopter Safety Team newsletter.

VAI Daily

Sep. 9, 2025

Aviation Specialties Unlimited adds US Army veteran to team

The night-vision imaging systems provider has appointed retired US Army Lt. Keye Perry as Eastern United States USG territory manager.

VAI Daily

Sep. 9, 2025

Skyports to establish vertiport network for Jeju Island

The government of the South Korean island has appointed Skyports Infrastructure to lead the development of an advanced air mobility vertiport network with a goal of launching in 2028.