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Colorado
Drone news in Colorado: regulations, industry developments, innovative uses, events, and the impact on businesses and communities in the state.
DOT & FAA Launch eVTOL Pilot Program in 26 States — Autonomous Cargo Flights Could Start This Summer
The same executive order that unleashed drone dominance last June is now sending electric air taxis into live commercial airspace. On March 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA named eight projects under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program…
Green Berets Learn to Build, Break, and Fix Drones at Fort Carson
Three weeks. Soldering irons, tactical ranges, and high winds over Colorado. The 10th Special Forces Group just graduated its latest class of drone operators. These ones can also repair what they fly. Three Weeks on the Range and in the…
Colorado Springs PD Drone Tracks Juvenile Suspects Through Creek
Two juveniles tried to break into cars, allegedly pointed a gun at a security camera, then ran into a wooded creek bed at midnight thinking the dark would cover them. The drone disagreed. What Went Down on Saturday Night Just…
Skydio Is Already Patrolling Santa Fe. Now the City Has to Decide If It Stays
A woman passed counterfeit bills at three businesses on Cerrillos Road. Instead of sending a patrol officer to drive the corridor looking for her, Santa Fe police clicked a mouse and put a Skydio X10 in the air, as Santa…
A Santa Fe Skydio Drone Found an Unconscious Man in Four Minutes
A man is alive today because a drone reached his tent before the paramedics did. That is the entire story, as reported by KOB4. Santa Fe first responders located a 47-year-old man unconscious and not breathing near Las Acequias Park…
Weekly UAS News: Oregon Exposes FCC Ban Costs, DJI’s 96% Market Share, Export Rule Changes, Illegal Drone Deer Scouting, and a 925-Foot Tower Rescue
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have five stories for you this week. First up, Oregon exposes the real cost of the FCC ban. Second, a very interesting FAA study that reveals drone market shares. Third, the Commerce…
FAA research: DJI accounts for 96% of detected US drone platforms. The FCC banned DJI in December.
New FAA-funded research puts a hard number on what every drone pilot already knows: DJI is the US drone market. Not most of it. Nearly all of it. The ASSURE A83 2025 Annual Report, produced by researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
Oregon Exposes the Real Cost of the DJI Ban: 25 States Report 467 Restricted Drones and Up to $2 Billion in National Exposure
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage. A new white paper compiled by ODAV through the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) surveyed 25 state transportation…
Drone jobs are booming across the Mountain West, and a Reno kids club is building the next generation of pilots
The U.S. drone industry now employs hundreds of thousands people either directly or indirectly, The Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows in Reno, Nevada, is training its own staff to fly and code drones so they can pass those…
Skydio X10 Drone Finds Missing Alzheimer’s Patient in 24 Minutes
A 76 year old woman with Alzheimer’s walked out of her home into a cold Colorado evening. Within 24 minutes, a drone had found her standing in live traffic. That is not a futuristic concept. It happened last week in…
Aspen Fire Department Deploys AI Firefighting Drones
This article has been updated on Feb. 19 2026 In the mountain town of Aspen, where forests press close against homes and ski lodges, wildfire season no longer waits politely for summer. It lingers year round, prowling the tree lines.…
Drone Drops Flashlight to Stranded 19-Year-Old on Colorado 14er, Helping Rescuers Beat the Storm
Late last month, a 19-year-old hiker went missing on Quandary Peak, a 14er (a mountain with a summit over 14,000 ft) in Summit County, Colorado, as winter weather closed in. After a call came in for an “overdue hiker”, a…
