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(POWER UP magazine) – VAI advocates for safe, fair beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) rules.

(POWER UP magazine) – As we celebrate the achievements of our first responders, we need to invest in vertical aviation now to ensure our effectiveness in future disaster response and recovery efforts, writes VAI President and CEO James Viola.

Robinson has obtained clearance from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and regulators in Argentina, India, and Japan to offer its empennage configuration retrofit kit, which includes a symmetrical horizontal stabilizer and tail cone that is now standard on all new models, for operators of existing R66, R44, and R22 helicopters.

This Transport Canada airworthiness directive (AD), CF-2024-42, Main Rotor Drive System–Cracking of Transmission Oil Check Valve, takes effect Dec. 27, 2024. It applies to Bell 427s with serial numbers 56001 through 56084, as well as 58001 and 58002.

The manufacturer has delivered the first NH90 under a batch order for 23 helicopters to the Spanish Directorate General of Armament and Material in Albacete. The order comprises 10 NH90s for the Spanish Army Airmobile Force, 7 for the country’s navy, and 6 for the Spanish Air and Space Force, with deliveries through 2028.

Construction is complete at the new high-volume manufacturing facility at Covington Municipal Airport (KCVC) in Newton County under a partnership with automaker Stellantis. Production of Archer’s Midnight electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft is set to begin in early 2025.

VAI members receive discounts to attend and exhibit at VERTICON (formerly known as HAI HELI-EXPO®), among other VAI events. VERTICON 2025 takes place Mar. 10–13 (exhibits open Mar. 11–13), 2025, in Dallas, Texas.

The US Helicopter Safety Team has announced plans to introduce the Peer Pilot Program for helicopter pilots, with a series of kickoff events scheduled for March 2025 during VERTICON 2025 in Dallas, Texas.