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VAI is now accepting applications through Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, for 2025 scholarships in aviation maintenance, commercial helicopter pilot ratings, and pilot safety.

The in-person inspection authorization (IA) refresher training course takes place Feb. 1, 2025, at the Midlands Technical College campus in West Columbia.

The Nashua, New Hampshire–based company and Canadian navigation provider AG-NAV have conducted a demonstration of the Sprayhawk, which features AG-NAV’s Guia Platinum navigation system on an unmanned Robinson R44.

The manufacturer reports that a total of 56 Airbus helicopters, including several H145s, flew around 2,000 hours to assist people affected by storms and flooding in Brazil earlier this year.

This European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) emergency airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 62–Main Rotor–Hub Sleeves–Inspection, takes effect Nov. 18, 2024.

The Vermont-based company has completed the first flight of the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) version of its Alia electric aircraft.

or the first time in over 80 years, the FAA has created a brand-new aircraft category—powered-lift. Designed to support the continued development and integration of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft into the US National Airspace System, SFAR 120: Integration of Powered-Lift: Pilot Certification and Operations offers direction for pilots and operators of future VTOL aircraft.

With bowtie risk-management diagrams, VAI aircraft operators can build out virtual high-risk scenarios to visualize the threats and hazards they pose.

The president and CEO of Vertical Aviation International has received recognition for a lifetime of achievements in aerospace.