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This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 26–Fire Protection–Starter Generator Air Ducts–Modification, takes effect Apr. 22, 2025.

The company’s base in Victoria marked two decades of helicopter operations with an Apr. 8 ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Wildfire suppression specialist Rain will integrate the TrakkaCam TC-300-R multispectral camera from Trakka Systems into a Brothers Air Support Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. The companies finalized the agreement at last month’s VERTICON 2025 in Dallas, Texas.

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The company has launched its MR Hoist Operator Station, which uses mixed-reality technology to create a training platform for communication between the helicopter pilot and the hoist operator.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) requires removing all ballast weights from the aft-movable ballast-box assembly and prohibits the use of ballast weights within the assembly, as specified in a Transport Canada emergency AD. The FAA AD becomes effective Apr. 25, 2025.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) requires inspecting the slide of the control plate of the tail-rotor head assembly for any score, scratch, crack, or corrosion, removing corrosion, and replacing the tail-rotor head assembly, the slide of the control plate, or pitch-control assembly if discrepancies are found. It also requires reporting the results of the inspection. The AD, which takes effect Apr. 25, 2025, also prohibits the installation of an affected tail-rotor assembly, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency AD.

The academy in Valencia is offering two new comprehensive Bell 429 technical training programs for maintenance technicians.