Wings of skill, courage and responsibility

In particular, the unit has grasped the market situation, actively improved service quality; dominated the domestic market, promoted service export to foreign markets; flight hours, revenue, and annual profits all met and exceeded the set targets.

Along with that, the Corps successfully completed the assigned military and defense missions, focusing on being ready to fight, flying to search and rescue, and providing first aid to soldiers and civilians in the seas, islands, and borders of the Fatherland, ensuring absolute safety, thereby continuing to affirm the qualifications, bravery, and responsibility of the Corps' officers, pilots, and employees.

In the coming term, the Party Committee of the Corps determined to continue to lead the entire Corps to strive to rise up, take advantage of opportunities, overcome challenges, create a position and strength ready to enter a new period, together with the entire Party, the entire people and the entire army to successfully carry out the task of building and firmly defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

People's Army Newspaper introduces some images of activities of Army Corps 18 in recent years.

Major General Kieu Dang Hung, Commander of the 18th Army Corps, assigned tasks and encouraged the flight crew of the Northern Helicopter Company (18th Army Corps) before a flight.

Modern aircraft formation of the Southern Helicopter Company (18th Army Corps).

Northern Helicopter Company aircraft training for firefighting flights.

Southern Helicopter Company trains in sea rescue flights.

With basic and specialized training, the flight crews of the 18th Corps are capable of operating in complex terrain areas.

Many flight crews have worked through the night, in complex weather conditions, to bring patients from sea and island areas to the mainland for timely emergency and treatment.

At the end of July, the Northern Helicopter Company's aircraft transported food and necessities to flooded areas in Nghe An province to provide relief to people isolated by floods.

In early August 2025, the EC-155B1 aircraft of the Northern Helicopter Company promptly arrived and successfully rescued 8 people in Son La province who were surrounded and isolated by floods.

Production and business activities, including flight operations serving oil and gas exploration and exploitation, continue to be effectively carried out by the Corps.