Military GAO Rejects MD Helicopters FARA Protest The Government Accountability Office has turned down MD Helicopters' protest of what the company called its exclusion from the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft…
Military Long Live the King: With Problems Fixed, CH-53K Contract Expected in Weeks The Marine Corps is just weeks away from awarding a contract for the first lot of CH-53K King Stallions, but Sikorsky will have to fix…
Military CH-148 Cyclones Significantly Expand Surveillance Area, RCAF Says The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CH-148 Cyclones by Sikorsky significantly improve upon the surveillance area of the Sikorsky CH-124 Sea Kings, which the RCAF…
Commercial After the Accident: Inside the Black Box with NTSB Investigators You've read about the black box. In the wake of a crash, authorities scramble to find the black box, the key to the investigation. It…
Military MD Helicopters Granted GFRC for Production of Military Aircraft As MD Helicopters fulfills a $1.4 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the Pentagon for at least 150 MD530 rotorcraft destined for the United States’…
Commercial FAA Seeking Comments by Apr. 15 on Drone Flights Comments are due Apr. 15 on proposed rules by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) governing the safe flight of drones through Unmanned Traffic Management, drone…
Commercial Honeywell to Handle Navigation for Volocopter eVTOL Honeywell and Volocopter will jointly test and develop navigation and automated landing systems for Volocopter's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the two companies…
Military FVL ‘Absolutely Fundamental’ to Army Maneuver Warfare Against Near Peer, Milley Says The Army Future Vertical Lift program is “absolutely fundamental” to the service’s ability to execute maneuver warfare against a near peer threat, like Russian and…
Military Japanese F-35A Fighter Falls Off Radar, Remaining Fleet Grounded UPDATE: The wreckage of the missing F-35 fighter has been found, but the pilot is still missing, according to Japanese military officials. The Japanese Air…
Commercial Boeing Reports 1Q Deliveries, Lowers 737 MAX Production Boeing reported a combined 209 deliveries of commercial and defense fixed and rotary wing aircraft during the first three months of 2019, including 89 deliveries…
Commercial U.S. Proposes New Tariffs on European Commercial Helicopters The U.S. trade war has a new front: Europe. While the Trump administration last year proposed tariffs on Chinese goods, including helicopters, it broached new…