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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30,000 under its DFW approval, as Bloomberg reports early talks to raise about $1B at about $20B with Part 108 still unpublished.
Read the story →Commercial UAV Expo's 12th edition drew a record 3,800 professionals to Las Vegas as new Section 232 tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones took effect on the show's closing day.
The FAA's long-awaited Part 108 drone rule has sat at White House regulatory review since July 10, with the standard 90-day window closing October 8 — while DoorDash, Zipline, Amazon and Joby all build ahead of a final text nobody has seen.
Five federal agencies warned Dallas drone operators on Sept. 8 that flying inside the RNC Midterm Convention's 3-mile, 400-foot TFR risks $75,000 civil fines, criminal prosecution, and interception by Secret Service counter-drone aircraft.
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.
TSA's Sept. 4 Federal Register notice invites BVLOS operators to NDA-gated, SSI-protected roundtables that will shape Part 108's security programs only after the final rule publishes, with no public comment and the FAA half still parked at OIRA.
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.
At the 2026 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, an FAA-approved Drone Zone let multiple exhibitors fly agricultural spray drones side by side over live corn daily, signaling how fast spray-drone adoption is moving from novelty to mainstream farm equipment.
California lawmakers gave final, unanimous approval to a bill banning unauthorized drone flights within 400 feet of large outdoor concerts and amusement parks, setting up a likely fight over whether states can regulate airspace the FAA hasn't touched.
A State of the Industry survey unveiled at Commercial UAV Expo found 43% of operators haven't started preparing for Part 108 and 62.8% still fly fleets that are mostly DJI or other foreign-made aircraft, with cost cited as the top barrier to switching.
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.
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