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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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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
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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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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Commercial & Delivery
Amazon Prime Air Lands in Cleveland's Backyard — 3 Miles From Zipline's Drone Pharmacy, With No FAA Environmental Review on File
Amazon's new North Randall, Ohio drone hub put 21 delivery drones three miles from Cleveland Clinic's Zipline prescription operation, but as of Sept. 25 the FAA's own NEPA tracker showed no environmental review for the site.
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Commercial & Delivery
A New Tracker Maps the Real Footprint Behind Amazon, Wing and Zipline's Delivery-Drone Claims
DroneXL's new Drone Delivery Tracker cross-references FAA environmental records to map Amazon, Wing and Zipline's actual US drone-delivery footprint after Amazon declined to answer questions about it.
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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
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
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
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.
