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The Birmingham, West Midlands, England–based air medical operator has announced the winners of its 2024 Awards of Excellence, including a lifetime achievement award for Gillian Bryce with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.

(AIN) – Advanced air mobility is where the space race meets the gold rush, with a dwindling group of start-ups scrambling for an elusive finish line marked by type certification and service entry for new electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Japanese electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft maker SkyDrive is teaming up with JTB Corp. to develop a tourism network across the country.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 62–Main Rotor–Swashplate Bearing–Inspections, becomes effective Dec. 16, 2024. It supersedes AD 2023-0222-E, which was issued Dec. 21, 2023.

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Directorate of Flight Safety has concluded that multiple factors contributed to the spatial disorientation of all four crew members during a night training flight over the Ottawa River, which led to a controlled-flight-into-terrain accident. Two pilots died in the accident.

The China–based company conducted the initial flight of its Prosperity electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype Nov. 29 in Okayama.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires inspecting each belt tension clutch actuator bracket attached to the fan scroll housing, takes effect Jan. 7, 2025.

Airwolf Aerospace has received Transport Canada supplemental type certificate approval for True Blue Power TB17 batteries on the Airbus H125/AS350, AS355, H120, and H130/EC130; Bell 206A/B and Bell 206L/L-1/L-3/L-4; Enstrom 480B; Hiller UH-12E; and MD 369/MD 500.

Eve Air Mobility has secured a second-phase investment of up to US$35 million from Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) for its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft program.

Airbus has published a feature about how TAC Power Lines and Omni Taxi Aereo used an H225 to remove 25 power pylons and install new ones in environmentally protected areas of the Serra do Mar mountains.