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(BFBS Forces News) – The Royal Air Force (RAF) bids farewell to an aircraft that served in the British military for more than 50 years.

(AIN) – As the helicopter nears certification, the lead pilot for the Bell 525 Relentless program provided an update at VERTICON 2025 in Dallas, Texas.

BOOST Systems has reached an agreement to serve as an exclusive representative for IMS New Zealand’s Cloudburst Fire Bucket in Canada and the United States.

Pilots reported 12,840 laser strikes on aircraft to the FAA in 2024. The organization is highlighting its visualization tool, which shows trends from 2010 to present, and other resources to help decrease laser strikes while encouraging the public to report them to the FAA and local police.

VAI and the SoCal Chapter of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) are hosting the Advancing Rotorcraft Firefighting: Operational Lessons and Innovation Summit on Saturday, Apr. 5, at 10 am Pacific. The event takes place in a Robinson Helicopter hangar at Zamperini Field (KTOA) in Torrance.

Transport Canada has approved the company to conduct nighttime beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations using remotely piloted drones in airspace below 400 ft. above ground level.

The flight-hour total includes more than 3,000 hours accumulated since June 2024 on a variety of missions around North Queensland and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Toll Aviation and the government of South Australia have ordered two Bell 429s, which will join the law enforcement operator’s fleet of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in 2027.

The National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus has received the first two H145Ms from Airbus as part of a six-helicopter order.