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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.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's Prime Air Drones Start Flying Over Baton Rouge, Louisiana's First City With the Service
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery went live in Baton Rouge on July 4-5, 2026, making it Louisiana's first city with the FAA-regulated Part 135 service and extending the MK30 network from a new facility near the former Cortana Mall.
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Commercial & Delivery
Cleveland Clinic Joins the Prescription-by-Drone Club This Summer
Cleveland Clinic will begin flying prescriptions to patients' homes via Zipline drones this summer, using a tethered delivery droid that lowers packages onto porches near its Beachwood campus in Ohio.
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Commercial & Delivery
Ireland's Manna Air Delivery Picks Tulsa as US Base, Plans 1,000 Jobs and 30-40 Drone Hubs
Irish drone-delivery firm Manna Air Delivery named Tulsa, Oklahoma its US base on July 8, 2026, pledging 1,000+ jobs and a 30-40 site launch network within a year, as AUVSI pushes the FAA to finalize Part 108 BVLOS rules.
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Commercial & Delivery
FAA's July 4th Security Lockdown Grounds a Drone Light Show, Exposing Airspace Risk for a Booming Industry
A 30-nautical-mile FAA no-drone zone tied to the Salute to America 250 security event grounded a Sky Elements drone show in Columbia, Maryland while the traditional fireworks display flew on unimpeded.
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Commercial & Delivery
ANRA Technologies' Airspace Software Now Powers More Than 55,000 Commercial Drone Flights a Month
ANRA Technologies says its Mission Manager X UTM platform now supports over 55,000 commercial drone operations a month across eight states, a milestone underscoring how far BVLOS adoption has advanced ahead of the FAA's Part 108 rule.
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Commercial & Delivery
Zipline and BayCare Launch Tampa Bay's First Autonomous Medical Drone Delivery Network
BayCare and Zipline will build a Part 135-certified drone network across 16 Tampa Bay hospitals, starting in St. Petersburg-Clearwater with first flights targeted for late 2027.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon Asks the FAA to Fly Prime Air Drones Over Omaha's Suburbs — Comment Window Closes July 22
Amazon has filed for FAA approval to launch Prime Air drone delivery from a Papillion, Nebraska warehouse, with a public comment window on the draft environmental assessment closing July 22, 2026.
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Commercial & Delivery
Europe Pulls Ahead: Spain Clears First SAIL III Cargo Drone Flights Over Populated Areas as U.S. Part 108 Stalls
Spain's AESA has issued the country's first SAIL III authorization, clearing CATUAV to fly RigiTech's Eiger 3 BVLOS over populated areas — a higher-complexity milestone that lands while the U.S. still has no finalized BVLOS rule.
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Commercial & Delivery
BayCare Bets on Zipline: A New Autonomous Medical-Delivery Network for West Central Florida
BayCare and Zipline will build an autonomous drone-delivery network for lab samples, medications and critical supplies across West Central Florida, launching in the St. Petersburg area in late 2027 on FAA Part 135 BVLOS authority.
