The Air Force and Navy will begin to let their V-22 Osprey fleets fly once more in the coming weeks after key parts of their engines are individually checked on each aircraft. The two grounded their tiltrotor planes Dec. 6 after a mechanical mishap with an Air Force Osprey in New Mexico.

The Navy office that oversees the military's use of the V-22 Osprey is allowing the services to resume flying the aircraft while ordering yet another key component -- one that has led to at least one deadly crash -- to undergo further scrutiny.

Japan plans to put its Osprey tiltrotor aircraft back in the air after imposing safety guidelines affecting the aircraft transmissions announced by the U.S. military recently.

A cracked gear led to a November 2023 Osprey crash that killed eight airmen. The military is trying to see which Ospreys might risk a similar failure.

The US Navy has ended an operational pause on its troubled fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft, allowing flights to resume with inspections of the aircraft.

The U.S. military’s V-22 Ospreys will be cleared to fly after each aircraft is inspected to assess their prop-rotor gearboxes, a part connected to a deadly 2023 crash, and operating limits are being imposed on new gearboxes.