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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
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
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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Policy & Regulation
The BVLOS Rule Is at the White House — and Nobody Agrees on Which Rule It Is
The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule reached OIRA on July 10, 2026, and trade press called it a proposed rule moving forward. The live review record says otherwise: Stage — Final Rule. The difference is roughly a year of your operating plans.
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Tech & Builds
Seeing for the Pilot Who Isn't There: Ground-Based Optical Radar Takes Aim at the BVLOS Bottleneck
High Lander and Thirdeye are moving detect-and-avoid off the airframe and onto the ground — a passive optical radar feeding a live national UTM, tested against helicopters approaching out of the sun, and aimed squarely at the non-cooperative-traffic clause holding up Part 108.
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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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Policy & Regulation
Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS and DOJ Issue Interim Final Rule Letting State and Local Police Detect, Track and Take Down Drones
A new joint DHS/DOJ interim final rule, effective July 1, 2026, hands state, local, Tribal and territorial police and correctional agencies detection and — for the first time — drone mitigation authority, with public comment open through September 4.
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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.
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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.
