Commercial & Delivery
Commercial drone news from UASFeed — delivery, inspection, agriculture, public safety, and the operators putting uncrewed aircraft to work.
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Commercial & Delivery
USDA Flies Over 1,000 Drone Missions in Texas to Track New World Screwworm
Since June 3, 2026, USDA's APHIS has flown more than 1,000 drone surveillance missions over Texas ranchland, observing 20,000+ animals in a biosecurity response that has pulled in DHS border-surveillance drone assets and personnel.
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Commercial & Delivery
A Drone Beat an Ambulance by Five Minutes: Virginia's First AED-Delivery Drone Pilot Goes Live
James City County, Virginia launched the state's first real-world AED-delivery drone pilot on August 1, 2026, with test flights showing a 2:30 drone delivery time versus an 8:06 average fire department response.
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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
Archer's Halo: The Commercial Twin of Anduril's Thunder Bets on Uncrewed Heavy Cargo VTOL
Archer unveiled Halo, an autonomous hybrid-electric cargo VTOL sharing its airframe and powertrain with Anduril's Thunder attack tiltrotor — but with no published payload or range figures, its credibility rests on Anduril's half-billion in FY2026 contracts, not Archer's $2M federal record.
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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
ZenaTech's 25th Buyout Pushes Drone-as-a-Service Into Oil-and-Gas Compliance Flying
ZenaTech closed its 25th acquisition since January 2025, buying Alberta-based Velocity Geomatics to push its Drone-as-a-Service model into environmental and regulatory compliance flying for the oil-and-gas sector.
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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.
