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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting comments through Nov. 13 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 72 – Engine – Gas Generator High-Pressure Turbine Blades – Replacement.

Toho Air Service and Leonardo have signed a contract for the supply of an additional Leonardo AW139 intermediate twin-engine helicopter for Tokyo AI land-shuttle services.

Vita Inclinata Technologies and its subsidiary, Air Rescue Systems (ARS), will display the Vita Rescue System and Pelican rapid extraction device at Stand #735 during EUROPEAN ROTORS 2024, which takes place Nov. 4–7 (exhibits open Nov. 5–7) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Airservices Australia, the government-owned company that provides air traffic services across the country, has signed an agreement with Wisk Aero for infrastructure and other support for commercial electric air taxi services.

Comments are due by Dec. 2, 2024, on this FAA proposed airworthiness directive (PAD), which would require checking the operation of the shear-button safety-cap on each applicable collective pitch handle. It would also prohibit installing certain part-numbered collective pitch handles or collective sticks unless operators meet certain requirements.

Rotortrade will provide updates about its new maintenance center in France and other recent developments at Stand #4035 during EUROPEAN ROTORS 2024, which takes place Nov. 4–7 (exhibits open Nov. 5–7) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Airbus has published a feature about Alberta, Canada–based Slave Lake Helicopters, which has crossed a milestone of planting more than 200 million trees with the help of its fleet of Airbus H125s.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has obtained a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to install its Alias/Matrix flight autonomy system on the US Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter.

Lockheed Martin has received a contract to develop a third-generation radar frequency interferometer/radar warning receiver system for the US Army fleet of Apache helicopters.

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