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(Unofficial Networks) – The Mil Design Bureau developed the V-12 prototype, the largest helicopter ever built, starting in 1959. The program was canceled in 1974 and led to the design of the Mil Mi-26.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting comments through Feb. 28 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), ATA 25–Equipment/Furnishings–Rescue Hoist Cable Drum–Inspection.

(GlobeNewswire) – ZenaTech subsidiaries ZenaDrone and Spider Vision Sensors are partnering with Suntek Global of Taiwan to seek Blue unmanned aircraft system (UAS) certification from the US military for ZenaDrone’s IQ Nano drone sensor.

(EIN Presswire) – The Slovenian company, a division of Textron eAviation, has completed the first hover flight of its Nuuva V300 hybrid–electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) cargo drone.

The new software from the Teledyne Technologies division provides mission-planning services for unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and drone operators using artificial intelligence.

Marion Drake, a longtime lead pilot for Air Methods operator LifeNet in Hagerstown, Maryland, and a former US Marine Corps (USMC) pilot, has completed his last shift.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be the pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from terrain during takeoff from the helipad in gusty wind conditions, which resulted in the right-skid extension embedding in the artificial turf and led to a dynamic rollover.

Milestone Aviation Group has obtained a contract to lease five new Leonardo AW189s to Equinor Energy for offshore oil-and-gas operations.

At our Jan. 22 webinar, we spoke with Helicopter Institute President and Past VAI Chair Randy Rowles and one of six Afghan pilots he’s training to enter the US helicopter industry workforce after they assisted the country during the War in Afghanistan.

(AIN) – US President Donald Trump has appointed Christopher Rocheleau, formerly COO of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), as acting FAA administrator.