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This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) for Leonardo A109C, A109E, A109K2, A109S, and AW109SP helicopters, which requires disassembling certain tail-rotor duplex bearings and reassembling them in accordance with updated procedures, takes effect Oct. 21, 2024.

The Utah Rotor Pathway Program held its third annual fly-in Sep. 13 at Cedar Valley High School in Eagle Mountain, Utah. The event featured displays from multiple local helicopter operations and introduced students to careers in aviation.

The September 2024 safety report from the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) is now available. The monthly report covers various metrics, including average accident rates and average fatal-accident rates for the past five years.

The India Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DCGA) has published guidance materials related to the type certification process for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD) takes effect Oct. 21, 2024. It requires Bell 505 operators to install a grommet around the sump drain port-fitting airframe hole after investigators discovered fuel leakage during fuel system crash-impact testing.

The FAA’s Office of Airports is seeking comments through Oct. 18 on an engineering brief update on vertiport design that will provide interim standards for aviation facilities with electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires a one-time visual inspection to determine the correct assembly of each sliding flange installed on each main-rotor gearbox coupling, becomes effective Oct. 21, 2024.

For our Sep. 12, 2024, webinar, we dove into our archives to highlight one of the most dynamic stories we’ve heard during our four years of producing our webinar series. We revisited an October 2021 webinar in which we featured two pilots from the California Army National Guard who had conducted a rescue mission under grueling conditions, rescuing hundreds of people from a forest fire high in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Queenstown, New Zealand–based Over The Top has received the auspicious VAI Operator Safety Award, which recognizes the company’s exceptional commitment to safety and its achievement of accident-free flight operations for the 2023 calendar year.

The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) has announced this year’s winners of its student design competition. The University of Maryland’s Huma design took first place in the graduate category and Georgia Institute of Technology’s AeroLay design won the top prize in the undergraduate category.