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LAPD Skydio Drones Orbited No Kings Protest for Seven Hours, Flight Records Show
The Los Angeles Police Department used its Drone as First Responder program to surveil two major protests this year, flight records show. The department’s Skydio X10 drones began circling the March 28 No Kings rally in downtown Los Angeles at…
Skyports Begins Year-Long East River Medical Drone Run Between Manhattan and Brooklyn
Skyports Drone Services starts a 12-month commercial drone trial today, flying light pharmaceuticals across New York’s East River between Manhattan’s Downtown Skyport and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal under contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The…
FAA Launches DETER Enforcement Program, DJI Lito Leaks, FlyCart 200, and SiFly ADS-B Integration
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The FAA launches the DETER program — we’ll talk about that. Some pricing and spec leaks for not one but two new DJI drones. Speaking…
Reliable Robotics Raises $160 Million As SpaceX Alum Pushes FAA For First Commercial Uncrewed Cargo Cert
Reliable Robotics closed a $160M round led by Nimble Partners, pushing valuation near $1B as the SpaceX alum-led startup races toward FAA uncrewed cargo cert.
FAA Picks Palantir, Thales, and Airspace Intelligence to Build AI That Predicts Flight Conflicts Two Hours Out
The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing an AI-powered air traffic management tool that would let controllers deconflict flight paths up to two hours before a collision risk emerges, according to reporting from The Air Current published April 17, 2026.…
Drone Delivery Could Unlock $16B in Profits, Barclays Says
Barclays published research on Wednesday arguing that autonomous food delivery, driven by sidewalk robots and drones, could cut per-order costs to roughly $1 in the long term. The British bank sees about $16 billion in unlocked annual profit across the…
Skydio’s $9M USAFCENT Deal Puts X10s on Middle East Bases
Skydio just landed the kind of contract that separates a public safety drone company from a defense contractor. U.S. Air Forces Central, the USAFCENT component of U.S. Central Command, awarded the San Mateo, California company an order exceeding $9 million…
EASA Releases Revision 24 of Air Operations Rules With Gyroplane and Flight Data Monitoring Updates
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published Revision 24 of the Easy Access Rules for Air Operations (EAR for Air OPS), dated March 2026, bringing three regulatory instruments into a consolidated rulebook and rolling out an improved online…
FCC Wants Your Input on Drone Spectrum and Licensing Before May 1 Deadline
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking drone operators, manufacturers, public safety agencies, and investors to file comments on a proposed set of reforms before May 1, 2026. The public notice, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” and formally designated DA-26-314,…
DJI Teases Lito Drone Launch for April 23 After Months of FCC Leaks and Speculation
DJI has officially announced a new drone launching on April 23, 2026 at 12 PM GMT (8 AM ET / 5 AM PT). The company posted a teaser on April 14 via its official @DJIGlobal account on X, using the…
FAA’s eIPP lets Wisk and Reliable Robotics fly commercial before certification, and that changes everything
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International…
Oregon Tells FCC: Build Drone Test Sites in Mountains, Not Just Labs
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) has drafted an eight-point response to the Federal Communications Commission’s April 1 public notice on “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” (GN Docket No. 26-74), and it reads less like a bureaucratic comment filing and more…