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The FAA is seeking comments by May 30 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require inspecting for the presence of the retaining ring in emergency flotation systems with certain inflation assemblies installed and, depending on the results, taking corrective action.

(Urban Air Mobility News) – Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has chosen teams led by Vertimob Infrastructure and PAX Aeroportos to develop the regulatory sandbox for vertiports to include passenger operations with electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

(Unmanned Airspace) – Japan’s UAS (unmanned aircraft system) Industrial Development Association is seeking research papers on UAS, urban air mobility (UAM), and advanced air mobility (AAM) topics for a session at Japan Drone 2025, which takes place Jun. 4–6 in Chiba.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is conducting a Class 4 investigation into the accident, which resulted in injuries to two people. The organization will release a final report at the conclusion of the investigation but will not release a preliminary report.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report into the accident that indicates the agricultural helicopter struck electrical cables.

(GlobeNewswire) – Volatus Aerospace has secured a one-year extension to continue providing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) support for Public Services and Procurement Canada.

(Aerospace Global News) – The German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer has broken ground on an assembly plant and flight-testing center in Wuhan, Hubei.

The United Kingdom Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has concluded that the operator believes the cause of the unresponsive controls during a flight from Throckmorton Airfield was due to a fault with the new unmanned quadcopter. The root cause of the technical fault has not been determined.