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This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires repetitive tap inspections of the main-rotor blades, and repair or replacement of them if necessary, takes effect Oct. 15, 2024.

Petroleum Air Services (PAS) will collaborate with Rotortrade on helicopter sales, marketing, research, and asset valuations across Egypt, the companies announced last week at the 2024 Egypt International Airshow.

The Spanish Maritime Safety and Rescue Society has signed a five-year contract with Avincis to continue providing search-and-rescue (SAR) services across the country.

(Military Embedded Systems) – Schiebel has received a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) design verification report (DVR) for its Camcopter S-100 vertical takeoff and landing rotary-wing unmanned aircraft system.

(The Scotsman) – At Corrour Bothy, a shelter in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, cleaning the toilets poses a logistical challenge that only a helicopter can meet. Officials that run the shelter called in a helicopter crew Sep. 5 to remove a dozen bags of human feces.

(National Defense) – The US Army is pointing to rushed training and pilot errors as the main reasons for a recent string of helicopter accidents. The past year has seen 14 major accidents resulting in 11 fatalities, with a mishap rate nearly double the yearly average for the past 10 years.

(AIN) – The Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched an investigation into how a Mil Mi-17 helicopter crew dropped a Leonardo AW119 on Sep. 7 during a shuttle operation after the AW119 broke down in the Uttarakhand mountains.

(9News.com/au) – A helicopter crew airlifted six people, including a 2-month-old baby, from a tractor that got stuck in a flooded river Sep. 7 near Ikamatua, South Island.

The FAA has issued a correction to its April 2024 final rule that incorporates certain airman certification standards (ACSs) and practical test standards into the certification requirements for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, aircraft dispatchers, and parachute riggers. The final rule incorrectly included duplicative requirements in certain areas.