PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) - Airbus Helicopters (AIR.PA), opens new tab on Tuesday announced the launch of its first all-new helicopter in about a decade: a light, twin-engined model aimed ...

Citing “intolerable risk for aviation safety,” the National Transportation Safety Board says helicopters should be banned from flying a certain route near Washington if two specific runways ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday said the agency will make permanent restrictions to prevent helicopters from flying near Washington Reagan ...

Despite new entrants like Hill Helicopter’s HX50, the light-helicopter category tends to be a stable, established niche that continues to see heavy demand. Light helicopters were first developed ...

According to Italian government’s documents, a prototype and three pre-production AW249s are currently being tested, while the initial order has been now increased to 17 helicopters.

A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...

LONDON—Hill Helicopters is on track to fire up its internally developed GT50 turboshaft engine for its HX/HC50 family of single-engine light helicopters this summer, company founder Jason Hill ...

Currently, helicopters and planes can be as close as 75 feet apart during landing but Homendy said that distance is “insufficient” and unsafe. She said, “Unfortunately, people lost lives ...

Manila says it will lodge a diplomatic protest after a Chinese helicopter flew deliberately within 3 metres (10 feet) of a Philippine aircraft. An aircraft identified by the Philippine Coast Guard ...

Some helicopter flights at Washington's Reagan National Airport should be banned amid an "intolerable risk" of collisions with planes, crash investigators have said. It comes after 67 people were ...

The National Transportation Safety Board wants to severely restrict helicopter traffic near Ronald Reagan National Airport, officials said Tuesday, in the wake of a catastrophic midair collision ...