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Commercial & Delivery
FAA's Final Omaha Assessment Raises Amazon's Drone Altitude Band, but the Noise Report Attached Still Models the Old One
The FAA's final Omaha environmental assessment moves Amazon's MK30 drones up to a 205-370 ft band, but its noise appendix, still dated September 2025, models the June draft's 180-279 ft outbound band, and DroneXL reports that the FAA never explains the change.
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Policy & Regulation
FBI Will More Than Double Its Counter-Drone School After 700 World Cup Seizures, but the Safer Skies Pipeline Still Runs Through One Campus
The FBI's Redstone counter-drone school will more than double capacity after 700 World Cup seizures, but with 250 more graduates expected next fiscal year and about 340 metro cities waiting, the only path to local takedown authority remains a bottleneck.
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Counter-UAS
Pentagon Picks AeroVironment, Epirus, Kord and Boeing for Its Homeland Directed-Energy Counter-Drone Pilot
The Pentagon has picked four lasers and a microwave weapon for a year-long JIATF-401 pilot on U.S. bases, where service members will run them. The goal is to learn what directed energy really costs to operate before a December shoot-off at Dugway.
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Commercial & Delivery
Wing and Walmart Add Denver and Seattle for 2027 as Denver Suburbs Freeze Drone Hubs and Northglenn Writes Colorado's First Ordinance
Wing and Walmart say Denver and Seattle join in 2027, bringing the partnership to nearly 20 metros, but only five are flying. Two Denver suburbs have frozen hub applications, Northglenn is drafting setback and noise rules, and the FAA's environmental list has nothing posted for the 14 announced metros.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon's First Massachusetts Drone Hub: Three State Lawmakers Ask It to Pause in Westborough
Three Massachusetts legislators want Amazon to pause its first in-state Prime Air hub in Westborough until it explains its hours, flight paths, range and daily flight counts. Amazon says MK30 deliveries could start by the end of October, but the FAA and state approvals for the site are still pending.
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Commercial & Delivery
'It's Like a Beehive Up There': Richardson Residents Revolt Over Amazon Drone Noise as Prime Air Eyes 500 Cities
Richardson, Texas residents are logging dozens of daily Amazon Prime Air drone flyovers and organizing against the noise just as Amazon prepares to expand delivery drones to nearly 500 U.S. cities by year's end.
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Commercial & Delivery
DoorDash Builds Its Own Six-Rotor Delivery Drone, Moving From Marketplace to Aircraft Operator
DoorDash unveiled a purpose-built six-propeller, winch-equipped delivery aircraft at Dash Forward 2026, taking DoorDash Air in-house, but airspace authorizations and a San Francisco planning approval still stand between the hardware and routine flights.
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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon Told Pflugerville Its Drones Take No Images. Its Own Operations Page Says They May Record You
Amazon told Pflugerville's council its MK30 drones can't "take pictures or images," but Prime Air's own operations page says cameras may record people, pets and cars near delivery points and that images help improve Amazon services.
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Policy & Regulation
Federal Judge Finds Lodi's Town-Wide Drone Ban Preempted, but Pro Se Pilot Gets No Restraining Order
A New Jersey federal judge held Lodi's ban on drones below 400 feet is both field- and conflict-preempted by federal law, denying the borough's motion to dismiss while refusing the pro se pilot's TRO because enforcement isn't imminent.
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Commercial & Delivery
Connecticut Has Until Oct. 1 to Weigh In on Amazon's 1,000-Flights-a-Day North Haven Drone Hub, and the FAA Has Posted No Environmental Document
Connecticut DEEP's 15-day comment window on Amazon's proposed North Haven Prime Air hub closes Oct. 1, with an answer due to the FAA Oct. 16, while the FAA's drone NEPA index lists no Connecticut document.
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Policy & Regulation
Fifteen States and Harris County Ask the Second Circuit to Throw Out the FAA's Nationwide Drone-Delivery Environmental Clearance
New York AG Letitia James filed a Second Circuit petition for 15 states and Harris County, Texas, seeking to set aside the FAA's July 28 national environmental review for Part 135 drone package delivery, the first court challenge to the agency's NEPA shortcut.
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Industry & Contracts
Matternet Unveils M3 With an 11-Pound Payload, but the FAA Certificate That Took the M2 22 Months Doesn't Exist Yet
Matternet's new M3 carries 11 lb over a 10-mile radius and targets commercial service in 2H 2027, but no FAA airworthiness criteria for it have been published, and the M2's took 22 months from proposal to final.
