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The FCC will vote Oct. 29 on a draft order that would let drones use 50 MHz of licensed, nationwide 800 MHz cellular spectrum by carving uncrewed aircraft out of a rule that dates to the airplane-phone era. The ban on passengers using phones in flight stays.
Read the story →Bentonville planners approved a Wing drone nest at Walmart Store #100 by a 7-0 vote in September 2025. A year later, Walmart's hometown is missing from Wing's 19-metro list, and in Arkansas the FAA's public environmental record covers only Zipline.
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.
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.
An FAA draft environmental assessment would let Zipline fly up to 220,000 Texas deliveries a day, versus 30,000 under its DFW approval, as Bloomberg reports early talks to raise about $1B at about $20B with Part 108 still unpublished.
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.
Wing's two new C-level hires, a Navy carrier-autonomy veteran and a former Google Pixel hardware chief, plus an FAA Houston plan sized for 30,000 flights a day, show Alphabet's drone unit gearing up to build and fly aircraft at consumer-electronics volumes.
A Zipline P2 delivery drone deployed its emergency parachute over Cypress, Texas, and settled into the southbound lanes of Highway 6 on Sept. 4; no one was hurt, no one called police, and the cause is undisclosed. It is the second Texas chute landing in six weeks.
Less than a month after launch, Cleveland Clinic's Zipline-powered prescription drone service is flying roughly 20 deliveries a week from four aircraft — with room to scale to twelve.
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.
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.
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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