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The company provided a series of updates on new alliances across the globe during last week’s Paris Air Show.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Jul. 25, requires updating the airworthiness limitations section of the existing maintenance manual or instructions for continued airworthiness and the existing approved maintenance or inspection program, as applicable.

Future Flight Global (FFG) has signed a letter of intent with Eve covering up to 54 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for operations in Brazil and the United States.

(GlobeNewswire) – The company’s facility in Bremen, Germany, will supply a broader range of critical components for Airbus Helicopters. FDH Aero is also expanding its support center in Singapore and has opened a new sales office in India.

During last week’s Paris Air Show, the Chinese maker of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft signed an agreement with ANRA Technologies to collaborate on urban air mobility (UAM).

(Reuters) – During last week’s Paris Air Show in France, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he wants civil aviation to return to a 1979 zero-tariff trade agreement.

Coulson Aviation Canada has obtained a 70-day contract to deploy a night-vision goggles–equipped Sikorsky S-61 helitanker for the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS).

The FAA is seeking comments by Aug. 4 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would supersede AD 2020-24-07. The new AD would keep the requirements of the existing AD while establishing an additional modification, which would constitute terminating action for repetitive inspections. The proposed AD would also expand the helicopter applicability; propose additional requirements for certain helicopters; and prohibit installing affected microswitches or an affected twist grip with an affected microswitch.

(KBMT) – Local police in Orange County, Texas, charged a drone operator last week with a misdemeanor for interfering with a medical helicopter Feb. 9 near Orangefield.

Due to the efforts of a coalition of stakeholders led by the VAI Government Affairs team, the New York State government’s regularly scheduled legislative session concluded this week without passage of a “noise tax” on helicopter operations.