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Australia has chosen the Boeing AH-64E Apache as its armed reconnaissance helicopter to replace the Airbus Tiger helicopters it currently flies in that role.

Helicopter Association International is doubling down on its decision to hold Heli-Expo 2021 as an in-person event in March, even as Bell, Airbus, Sikorsky and Robinson withdraw from the show due to concerns over Covid-19.

The U.K. Royal Air Force Chinook that last week sank to its ankles, belly to the earth, has been pulled from the freezing mud.

With about 30,000 helicopter flights near Washington, D.C., each year, helicopter noise is a real issue, but resident complaints won’t quiet the skies.

Despite the impact of Covid-19, 2020 proved to be a relatively busy year for the Irish Coast Guard, which coordinated 2,643 incidents.

In an otherwise grim year, our readers were overwhelmingly drawn to stories about technological progress in the helicopter industry.

As 2020 closes out, Sikorsky and Boeing continue to fly the SB>1 Defiant coaxial helicopter as the team puts the final touches on an official pitch to replace the U.S. Army’s long-serving UH-60 Black Hawks.

Kuwait has been cleared by the U.S. State Department to purchase new AH-64E gunships and upgrade its legacy D-model Apaches to the most-modern version under a deal worth up to $4 billion.

A Senate committee investigation found that FAA managers in Honolulu improperly granted policy deviations to local aerial tour company Novictor Helicopters.

The U.S. military’s appetite for small vertical-lift drones could be worth more than $1 billion if both the Army and Marine Corps follow through on plans to equip every 10 troops with a quadcopter.