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Commercial & Delivery
Zipline Asks FAA for 220,000 Texas Deliveries a Day While Shopping a $1 Billion Round at a $20 Billion Valuation
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30,000 under its DFW approval, as Bloomberg reports early talks to raise about $1B at about $20B with Part 108 still unpublished.
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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
A Zipline Drone Parachuted Onto a Houston Highway and Nobody Called 911: Second Texas Chute Landing in Six Weeks Tests the P2's Safety Case
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.
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Commercial & Delivery
Cleveland Clinic's Zipline Drone Pharmacy Hits 20 Deliveries a Week From a Four-Aircraft Fleet
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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Commercial & Delivery
Uber and Zipline Team Up to Chase a Million Drone Deliveries a Day by 2029
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.
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Commercial & Delivery
DoorDash Wins FAA Part 135 Certification, Launches In-House Drone Delivery Arm
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.
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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
Cleveland Clinic Joins the Prescription-by-Drone Club This Summer
Cleveland Clinic will begin flying prescriptions to patients' homes via Zipline drones this summer, using a tethered delivery droid that lowers packages onto porches near its Beachwood campus in Ohio.
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Commercial & Delivery
Ireland's Manna Air Delivery Picks Tulsa as US Base, Plans 1,000 Jobs and 30-40 Drone Hubs
Irish drone-delivery firm Manna Air Delivery named Tulsa, Oklahoma its US base on July 8, 2026, pledging 1,000+ jobs and a 30-40 site launch network within a year, as AUVSI pushes the FAA to finalize Part 108 BVLOS rules.
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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.
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Commercial & Delivery
BayCare Bets on Zipline: A New Autonomous Medical-Delivery Network for West Central Florida
BayCare and Zipline will build an autonomous drone-delivery network for lab samples, medications and critical supplies across West Central Florida, launching in the St. Petersburg area in late 2027 on FAA Part 135 BVLOS authority.
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Commercial & Delivery
Grubhub's Parent Bets on the Sky: Wonder Plans Texas Drone Delivery as Walmart-Wing's Network Nears 20 Markets
Wonder, the food-hall operator that owns Grubhub, will launch drone food delivery in Dallas in January 2027 — entering a commercial market where Walmart and Wing are pushing toward 20 U.S. metros and Zipline has cleared 2 million deliveries.
