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![One of the rarest and least-known Cessnas ever produced, the CH-1 helicopter. [Credit: Cessna]](https://staging.hoveringhelicopter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CH-1-Cessna-Flight-768x490.jpg)
If you’d like to stump everyone at aviation trivia, simply ask them to name the Cessna with the shortest takeoff-and-landing distances. More than likely, guesses would include the O-1 Birddog and possibly the 180 and 182. However, digging into the dustier corners of Cessna’s history reveals the true winner—its one and only helicopter the company ever produced, the CH-1 Skyhook.
As of September 1, a South Korean joint response team reported no confirmed trace of nine South Korean workers missing after flash floods struck Nepal’s Rasuwa District on August 26. The missing personnel include six employees of Doosan…
The Indian Air Force has sought industry proposals for Vayu Baan, a helicopter-dropped targeting-drone development effort intended to extend rotary-wing surveillance and strike reach. Reporting on the solicitation describes a small unmanned aircraft released from a helicopter, after…
The U.S. Air Force has activated the 5th Helicopter Squadron at Joint Base Andrews, marking the installation’s first new Air Force helicopter squadron in 60 years. The unit will prepare aircrews, maintainers and operating procedures for the arrival of the HH-60W Jolly Green II, the service’s newest combat rescue helicopter. The new squadron will operate…
Belgium’s Coast Guard deployed a Schiebel Camcopter S-100 vertical-takeoff uncrewed aircraft from the military site at Lombardsijde for North Sea surveillance operations through mid-July. The 2026 deployment was the first time the aircraft operated from Belgian territory under…
