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Airwolf Aerospace has received a supplemental type certificate from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) to install the lithium-ion batteries on various Airbus and Bell models, as well as the Enstrom 480B, MD 369/500, and Hiller UH-12E.

CAE will install the simulator, a fixed-base training device for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft pilots, this month at Joby’s training center in Marina, California. CAE also plans to deliver a full-motion simulator later this year.

(AirMed&Rescue) – The German air rescue operator delivered an Airbus H145 D3 to a base near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, completing a five-year process to equip all its bases with H135 and H145 D3 helicopters.

The US Army has selected Bell Textron for the second phase of the competition to develop a next-generation military training helicopter.

A LifeFlight Australia helicopter crew from Sunshine Coast, Queensland, airlifted two people after an ultralight aircraft crash Jan. 4 near Noosa.

(Unmanned Airspace) – Air Taxi Israel will build the country’s first vertiport for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft operations at Atidim Park in northern Tel Aviv.

The Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) and publishing partners Global Airspace Radar and Unmanned Airspace/Urban Air Mobility News are accepting applications through Mar. 6 for the new Seamless Skies Awards program. The awards will recognize 2025 achievements in the air traffic and unmanned aircraft systems traffic management sectors during Airspace World 2026, which takes place May 26–28 in Lisbon, Portugal.

(The Telegraph) – Zipline’s drones have delivered more than 8.4 million medical products in the country since 2019, including antivenom to treat people bitten by poisonous snakes.

The company’s new VRM-2, developed with Myriad, is a motion-cueing flight simulator for the Axe electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that uses virtual reality technology.

(KRON) – A California Highway Patrol (CHP) helicopter crew rescued two hikers from a steep seaside rock formation Jan. 4 along the Point Reyes National Seashore south of Pelican Lake.