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VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Wisk Aero to advance air taxi network in Australia

Airservices Australia, the government-owned company that provides air traffic services across the country, has signed an agreement with Wisk Aero for infrastructure and other support for commercial electric air taxi services.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

ACSF sets dates for 2025 Safety Symposium

The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) 2025 Safety Symposium will take place Apr. 7–9, 2025, at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University campus in Daytona Beach, Florida.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Proposed FAA AD: Airbus AS332, AS355, AS365, EC155, EC225 LP, and SA 365 series helicopters

Comments are due by Dec. 2, 2024, on this FAA proposed airworthiness directive (PAD), which would require checking the operation of the shear-button safety-cap on each applicable collective pitch handle. It would also prohibit installing certain part-numbered collective pitch handles or collective sticks unless operators meet certain requirements.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Rotortrade to exhibit at EUROPEAN ROTORS 2024 in Amsterdam

Rotortrade will provide updates about its new maintenance center in France and other recent developments at Stand #4035 during EUROPEAN ROTORS 2024, which takes place Nov. 4–7 (exhibits open Nov. 5–7) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Slave Lake Helicopters plants trees using Airbus H125

Airbus has published a feature about Alberta, Canada–based Slave Lake Helicopters, which has crossed a milestone of planting more than 200 million trees with the help of its fleet of Airbus H125s.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

UAV Navigation develops heads-up display for drone operators

Spanish company UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has introduced an advanced on-screen display that builds on the primary flight display of the flight control system to provide visualizations for operators of unmanned aerial vehicles and remotely piloted aircraft systems.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

BNDES approves $88M loan for Eve Air Mobility facility in Brazil

Eve Air Mobility has secured an $88 million loan agreement with the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) for an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft production facility in Taubaté, São Paulo.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Sikorsky to add autonomous flight system to UH-60M demonstrator

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has obtained a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to install its Alias/Matrix flight autonomy system on the US Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter.

VAI Daily

Oct. 16, 2024

Lockheed Martin to upgrade radar systems on US Army Apaches

Lockheed Martin has received a contract to develop a third-generation radar frequency interferometer/radar warning receiver system for the US Army fleet of Apache helicopters.

VAI Daily

Oct. 15, 2024

VAI Member Spotlight: Helicopter Specialties Inc., Wisconsin, USA

Part 145 repair station offers maintenance, repairs, engineering, painting, and other services for a wide range of Airbus, Bell, Enstrom, Leonardo, MD Helicopters, and Robinson models.