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EASA Moves To Drop Drone Registration To 100 Grams, And European Hobbyists Will Carry The Cost
EASA’s NPA 2026-103 would drop EU drone registration, training, and Remote ID to 100 grams, following the UK. Pros get lighter rules; hobbyists get squeezed.
DJI Pulls the Matrice 4D’s C6 Compliance Off the Dock, Handing STS-02 Operators a Cheaper Path to BVLOS
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant…
Manna Points to Trinity Study After Coolmine Refusal
Manna has issued an official response to Fingal County Council’s May 19 refusal of its Coolmine drone delivery hub, anchoring its defence on a Trinity College Dublin acoustic study and on World Health Organization, EU, EASA, ISO, and Irish EPA noise standards. The…
Czech Sub-250g Drone Hits 351 MPH, Smashes Record
A sub-250-gram (8.8 oz) drone built by a Czech engineering shop just clocked 351.4 mph (565.4 km/h) on a two-way speed run and smashed the standing world record for its category. Born4Flight’s SH250G SpeedHunter, flown by founder Jakub Espandr on…
Potensic Atom 3 First Flight: New Sub-249 Gram Drone Flies Like A DJI Mini For A Lot Less Money
Potensic released the Atom 3 today, and we have already put it in the air. The new sub-249 gram drone pairs a 1 50-megapixel camera with a claimed 16 km (9.9 miles) of video transmission and up to 50 minutes…
Transport Canada Proposes Drone Remote ID, Club Exemptions, And New Airspace Restriction Powers
Transport Canada published Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2026-005 on June 8, 2026, the biggest proposed rewrite of Canadian drone rules since Part IX of the Canadian Aviation Regulations took effect in 2019. The proposal would mandate Remote ID for…
One Drone Empties a NATO Capital
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Lithuania closed the airspace over Vilnius International Airport at 10:00 AM local time. Twenty minutes later, every cell phone in the capital pinged with a message ordering residents into shelters. The trigger was a single…
U.S. Navy Tests BlackSea GARC and Seasats Lightfish in Norway
The U.S. Navy is running an exercise called Arctic Sentry 2026 off the coast of northern Norway through May 24, putting unmanned surface vessels and underwater drones through their paces in cold-climate maritime operations. The two surface platforms identified in…
Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
Six weeks ago, in a press release issued through the Irish government’s Enterprise Ireland agency, Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy called Ireland “the foundation of everything we do” and committed to designing and building drones in Dublin. On Tuesday…
Canadian Military Activates Counter-Drone Defenses At Naval Bases, Wrestles With Halifax Harbor Identification Problem
The Canadian Armed Forces have quietly activated counter-drone systems at major ports and air bases, starting with the naval installations that protect frigates, submarines, and Arctic patrol ships in port. Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, told…
European Commission Opens EU Aviation Strategy Consultation, And Drone Operators Have Until May 21 To Weigh In
The European Commission opened public consultation on a new EU Aviation and Aeronautics Strategy on April 24, 2026, starting work on a framework that will replace the 2015 Aviation Strategy for Europe. Comments close May 21, 2026. For drone operators,…
DJI Agricultural Drone Fleet Hits 600,000 As EU Moves To Lift Aerial Spray Ban; Italy’s Implementation Decree Stalls
DJI Agriculture announced Wednesday at Agrishow 2026 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, that its global agricultural drone fleet has crossed 600,000 units, a 50% jump from the 400,000 the company reported at last year’s Agrishow. The fifth annual Agricultural Drone Industry…