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SiFly raises $20 million to start Q12 production
The Q12 holds a verified 3:11:54 flight record. SiFly has not started production, and its first paid deliveries are targeted for early 2027.
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Elroy Air flew the first uncrewed cargo flights in the FAA's eVTOL pilot program from a working Louisiana heliport
Chaparral, a hybrid-electric VTOL rated for more than 500 pounds, flew a week of autonomous sorties at Houma-Terrebonne Airport in late August under air traffic control, the first uncrewed flights authorized under the eIPP, Elroy Air said September 2.
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DOE drone team mapped 6,000 acres after Typhoon Sinlaku in the Northern Mariana Islands
The agency reports 41 flights, about 38,000 images, field processing, and map delivery into federal recovery systems. It did not publish an independent measure of time or cost saved.
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Michigan's auto-parts drone project says it is live. The operating details are still missing.
Jack Demmer Automotive Group, blueflite, and Airspace Link say test flights are complete and a 12-mile parts-delivery program is entering commercial operation, but the announcement does not identify the active routes, flight volume, schedule, or air-carrier operator.
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FAA clears Wing's Atlanta and Houston plans for up to 118 nests. That is not 118 live sites.
Final FAA records define a large operating envelope for Wing, but the same documents say rollout timing depends on market conditions.
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Amazon names 11 live drone sites. Its 500-city target still needs an address check.
Amazon's new location list establishes a real baseline across 10 metros. The year-end target and Uber-Zipline volume goal still describe future reach rather than current address eligibility.
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DoorDash Air launches with Part 135 certification and an aircraft designed in-house
DoorDash says it is now the eighth U.S. drone air carrier and is building the aircraft, ground handoffs, routing, and merchant integrations as one delivery system.
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Wing and Walmart are now delivering by drone to more than 50,000 Greater Orlando addresses
Two Central Florida stores are live, three more are planned, and the current 2.5-pound payload shows both the usefulness and the limits of neighborhood delivery.
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DroneDeploy's three-hour benchmark for a 1,500-image map depends on what you feed it
The July release adds faster Aerial Pro processing, denser 3D output, revised volumetrics, and new dock-health tools, while several headline AI and robotics features remain early access.
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Zipline's 2.5 millionth delivery is the wrong number to watch
The company says its U.S. delivery marketplace grew 13 times in the first half of 2026 as healthcare, restaurant, and retail programs expanded.
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The Everest cargo record wasn't DJI's most useful result on the mountain
Manufacturer-reported missions joined cargo delivery, glacier photogrammetry, and atmospheric sampling in one high-altitude operating environment.
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Wing turned a 40-minute medical drive into a five-minute flight on one specific route
The South London service moves pathology samples between Nelson Health Centre and St George's Hospital under a continuing UK approval, with thousands of patient samples delivered so far.
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Amazon's Chicago plan tops out at 3,000 drone flights a day, and the comment window has closed
The FAA opened a 30-day comment period on three proposed Prime Air centers, each analyzed at up to 1,000 MK30 delivery flights per day.
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1,070 drone docks, 4 million flights: autonomy is leaving pilot-by-pilot scale behind
Skydio says its customers now operate more than a thousand remote docks across three countries. The important number is not the hardware count, but the operating model behind it.
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Wing and Walmart add seven metros as drone delivery starts behaving like a network
The next expansion reaches Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the Bay Area, and Salt Lake City as Wing works toward more than 270 Walmart locations.