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• Neelam Mathews
The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal is investigating a Nov. 3 collision involving two Airbus AS350 helicopters during landing at Pheriche, a 14,340-foot helipad in Solukhumbu district along the Everest Base Camp trekking route.
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Airbus Helicopters has started final assembly of the third and final H160M Guepard prototype at its Marignane site in southern France. The medium twin is supporting development of a combined variant for France’s naval and air forces.
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A Turkish Land Forces S-70 Black Hawk crashed Thursday evening in the Yeşilyurt district of Malatya province, killing two majors and two sergeants aboard, according to reports. The cause of the accident has not been determined.
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal is investigating a Nov. 3 collision involving two Airbus AS350 helicopters during landing at Pheriche, a 14,340-foot helipad in Solukhumbu district along the Everest Base Camp trekking route.
Transport Canada has issued AEM a supplemental type certificate to install its MTP138 VHF FM and MTP136D P25 radios on Leonardo AW139 and AB139 helicopters. The British Columbia-based special-mission avionics company said the approval covers both models.
Leonardo DRS has received a U.S. Navy contract to begin low-rate initial production of its AN/AAQ-45 Distributed Aperture Infrared Countermeasure system. The defensive suite is designed to protect AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters against surface-to-air threats.
Two Spanish NH90 helicopters took off from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base on Nov. 5 after unidentified drones were detected near Romania’s Black Sea coast, NATO’s Allied Air Command said. The launch was the first live Alpha Scramble by a Spanish helicopter deployed on an international NATO mission.
The Namibian government has begun operating air ambulance services with a Learjet 31A and plans to add helicopter evacuations through cooperation with the Namibian Police Force and Namibia Defence Force. The arrangement combines fixed-wing and rotary-wing assets in a government-led medical evacuation capability.
The South Korean government has selected Sikorsky’s S-92A+ helicopter to transport the president and other senior government officials. The announcement identifies a new government VIP-transport role for the S-92A+, but the available report does not specify the number of aircraft or delivery schedule.
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