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VAI Daily

Feb. 24, 2026

LYNEports, AeroVecto to develop vertiports in Middle East

LYNEports and AeroVecto Aviation Services have agreed to partner on advanced air mobility vertiports in the region, starting in Oman.

VAI Daily

Feb. 24, 2026

Proposed EASA AD: Airbus Helicopters AS350 and EC130

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting feedback through Mar. 6 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 31 – Instruments – Fuse Cover Attachment of Circuit Breaker Panel – Modification.

VAI Daily

Feb. 24, 2026

Airbus Helicopters reveals concepts for NGRC study

The OEM is proposing two concepts for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities (NGRC) program in partnership with Collins Aerospace and Raytheon—a high-performance conventional and a high-speed compound helicopter.

VAI Daily

Feb. 24, 2026

LifeFlight Australia trains group of new doctors

The air medical operator prepared 33 new doctors to join its network across Queensland at the LifeFlight Training Academy at Brisbane Airport (YBBN).

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

Crews recover 9 killed in California avalanche

(KARE) – Helicopter crews assisted with locating and recovering the bodies of nine skiers who died in an avalanche last week near Lake Tahoe.

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

Bell issues alert service bulletin for Bell 429 cyclic stop

The service bulletin introduces a new cyclic stop window that reduces the aft-cyclic travel after Bell determined that high-amplitude, rapid fore-and-aft cyclic inputs while hovering increase the risk of rotor-to-airframe contact.

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

Airbus highlights Loft Dynamics H125 flight simulator

The new Loft H125 simulator is located within the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters at Marseille Provence Airport (LFML) in France.

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

Final FAA AD: Airbus Helicopters SA.330J

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which becomes effective Mar. 10, 2026, requires repetitive inspections of the pyrotechnical cartridge. It also prohibits installing an affected pyrotechnical cartridge on any helicopter without first meeting certain requirements. The FAA is accepting comments about the AD through Apr. 9, 2026.

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

Proposed FAA AD: Airbus Helicopters H160-B

The FAA is accepting comments through Apr. 9, 2026, on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require performing a functional test of the personal locator beacon and inspecting the rope connection to the emergency life raft system.

VAI Daily

Feb. 23, 2026

LifeFlight crew winches injured hiker from Australian mountain

A LifeFlight Australia crew based in Sunshine Coast, Queensland, airlifted the hiker Feb. 22 from Mount Coolum.