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Commercial & Delivery
Ford Dealership in Wayne, Michigan Launches State's First Drone-Delivered Auto Parts Corridor
Jack Demmer Ford in Wayne, Michigan flew its first commercial drone delivery on August 25, 2026, launching a $740,000 state-funded autonomous parts corridor using blueflite's Cobalt 461 tiltrotor and Airspace Link's AirHub platform.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Sixfold Prime Air Expansion Runs Into a City-by-City FAA Bottleneck
Amazon wants Prime Air drone delivery in nearly 500 U.S. cities by end of 2026, but each new site still needs its own FAA environmental review — and Chicago's three centers are still waiting.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Prime Air Drone Delivery Set to Expand Sixfold to Nearly 500 US Cities
Amazon plans to grow Prime Air drone delivery more than sixfold by the end of 2026, from 11 sites in seven states to nearly 500 US cities, under new FAA beyond-visual-line-of-sight authorization.
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Commercial & Delivery
Uber and Zipline Team Up to Chase a Million Drone Deliveries a Day by 2029
Uber is investing in Zipline and folding its delivery drones into Uber Eats starting in Dallas and Houston this year, with both companies eyeing a million autonomous deliveries a day by 2029.
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Commercial & Delivery
DoorDash Wins FAA Part 135 Certification, Launches In-House Drone Delivery Arm
DoorDash has secured FAA Part 135 air carrier certification for its in-house robotics unit, clearing the way for DoorDash Air to begin first-party drone deliveries this fall alongside its existing Wing and Flytrex partnerships.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Prime Air Drone Deliveries Hit Turbulence in Baton Rouge Launch
Amazon's new Baton Rouge drone-delivery service has logged a storm-drain near-miss and a burst syrup jar even as the company asks the FAA to scale the route to 1,000 flights a day.
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Commercial & Delivery
The 1,000-Pound Crop Duster: US Heavy-Lift Ag Drones Scale Up Just as the FAA Starts Auditing Part 137 Exemption Holders
Powerus is pushing 100-1,000 lb US-built spray drones into agriculture through Kaizen Aerospace and a $60M New Zealand distribution deal — in the same week the FAA disclosed it is running operational validations on noncompliant Part 137 exemption holders and closing petitions that ignore its Requests for Information.
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Commercial & Delivery
Matternet Adds Beeline UAS to Its Part 135 Network, Betting on Operators Instead of Owning Every Route
Matternet has added Beeline UAS to its FAA Part 135 drone-delivery operator network, letting Beeline fly Matternet's platform under its own air-carrier certificate across new U.S. markets -- a franchise-style scaling model rather than Matternet operating every route itself.
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Commercial & Delivery
275 Nautical Miles on Electrons: An Organ Crosses State Lines Aboard an eVTOL in the FAA's First eIPP Flights
BETA Technologies flew an animal organ roughly 275 nautical miles from Virginia to Baltimore in the FAA's first eIPP operational flights — but it took two ALIA aircraft and a mid-route handoff, and that relay says more about electric aviation's real constraint than any press release will.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Rogue Drone Just Grounded an Entire Aerial Firefighting Fleet on an 18,800-Hectare BC Blaze
An unauthorized drone near the Brunswick Complex wildfire forced BC Wildfire Service to halt all air tankers and helicopters on an 18,859-hectare blaze — the latest hobbyist incursion to shut down contracted firefighting aviation exactly when it's needed most.
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Commercial & Delivery
Drone Delivery's Next Act: Wing and Zipline Chase Scale as Kroger Weighs Reviving Its Mothballed Program
A Reuters report details how Wing and Zipline push toward profitability with Walmart while Kroger, whose 2021 Ohio drone pilot died under pre-BVLOS rules, weighs a relaunch as PwC forecasts 65%-a-year U.S. market growth through 2034.
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Commercial & Delivery
Wing and Walmart Expand Houston Drone Delivery to 13 Hubs, Reaching 1 Million Customers
Wing and Walmart activated drone delivery at eight more Houston-area Supercenters on July 8, bringing the metro to 13 nests and over 1 million eligible customers under Wing's FAA Part 135 authority.
