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Recoil Aerospace has received an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) to install its 790-gal. tank on the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. The STC is applicable to all UH-60 variants and the S-70 Black Hawk.

The FAA is seeking comments by Aug. 7 on this airworthiness directive (AD), which requires removing the expandable blade bolts from service and replacing them. The AD, effective Jul. 8, also prohibits the installation of an affected expandable blade bolt on any helicopter.

Representatives from the European Heli Center (EHC) and Reiser met Jun. 12 at Reiser’s headquarters in Berg, Bavaria, Germany, to start a project to provide an Airbus H135/H145 Level D full flight simulator for the planned EHC training facility at Lelystad Airport (EHLE) in Flevoland, the Netherlands.

The insurance provider is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the SM4 aviation safety program, which helps organizations manage risk, strengthen safety culture, and enhance safety management systems.

The electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft maker will help develop air taxi infrastructure at Jetex private terminals across the world, starting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the companies announced at last week’s Paris Air Show.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) requires revising the airworthiness limitations section of the existing maintenance manual or instructions for continued airworthiness and the existing approved maintenance or inspection program, as applicable. The AD becomes effective Jul. 25.

The companies will provide CAE’s magnetic anomaly detection–extended role (MAD-XR) system for installation on US Navy and Royal Australian Navy Sikorsky MH-60Rs.

The Lockheed Martin–approved maintenance, repair, and overhaul center in Bacău has completed its first phase maintenance inspection of a Sikorsky Black Hawk for Romania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Airbus has signed a framework agreement with Norwegian Air Ambulance for up to eight H145s, including two firm orders.

The OEMs will collaborate on an NH90 Block 2 architecture study in response to a request from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Helicopter Management Agency.