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The Texas-based air medical operator has purchased seven Bell 429s with an option for eight more. Bell plans to begin deliveries in spring 2026.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be the pilot’s failure to maintain rotor rpm during an approach to landing in a mountainous area.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be the pilot’s failure to properly identify the proper anchor point for the supplemental harness and the crew’s incorrect use of the restraint-system structure as an anchor point, which resulted in the separation of the structure.

(KSTP) – According to local and federal officials, the helicopter went down Sep. 6 in a remote area near Airlake Airport (KLVN) in Dakota County, resulting in the deaths of two people.

The company has appointed Melinda Balazova to the role at its facility in Germany.

The bipartisan state bill would reauthorize the FireGuard program, which uses US Department of Defense satellites to help detect wildfires.

The FAA is accepting comments through Oct. 23 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require revising the existing maintenance manual or instructions for continued airworthiness and the existing approved maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, by incorporating new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations.

(KMBC) – The US Army Reserve unit at New Century AirCenter (KIXD) conducted a final flyover with its fleet of Boeing CH-47s Sep. 7 in Johnson County.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Community Network is sharing information about a December 2016 helicopter crash in Brazil that illustrates a clear case of mission pressure leading a VFR helicopter pilot to fly into a degraded visual environment.

A new Skyportz animation shows how vertipads can reduce downwash and outwash from electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft at urban vertiports.