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(Vietnam.vn) – According to the Vietnamese military, a helicopter crew transported a sick soldier Jan. 4 from Amboyna Cay to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–based Near Earth Autonomy has developed a service that uses drones to conduct preflight checks of commercial airliners under a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) small business program and a partnership with Boeing.

First responders, local partners, and special guests, including former patients, gathered to commemorate the Air Methods operator’s 35 years of service to the communities of Barstow, Big Bear, Hesperia, and Victorville, on Dec. 14 at Apple Valley Airport (KAPV) in San Bernardino County.

VAI engaged with its Gateway Program partners and local operators to ensure that all required lighting systems are fully operational at the Hudson Tunnel Project in New York.

VAI has partnered with four safety management system (SMS) industry leaders to provide substantial savings for operators that don’t already have an SMS in place.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires repetitively inspecting the main landing gear shock absorber piston rod eye ends, becomes effective Jan. 17, 2025. The FAA will accept public comments on the AD until Feb. 18, 2025.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires measuring the axial play of the rotating scissors spherical bearings as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency AD, takes effect Jan. 17, 2025. The FAA is accepting public comments through Feb. 18, 2025.

The FAA is seeking comments by Feb. 18, 2025, on an airworthiness directive (AD) that requires repetitively inspecting the bolted joint between the Cardan-pivot joint assembly and the tail-rotor actuator piston rod. The AD becomes effective Jan. 17, 2025. It is related to emergency AD 2024-25-51, which was issued Dec. 12, 2024.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) emergency airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 53–Fuselage–Pylon Reinforcement Fittings–Inspection, took effect Dec. 26, 2024.

The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has issued a supplemental type certificate for Recoil Aerospace to install its Tsunami aerial fire-suppression tank system on the Airbus Helicopters H225 Super Puma.