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Unifly Now Owns The Auditor And The Consultancy EU Operators Use

EuroUSC-Benelux is now Unifly Compliance. EU law bars a Qualified Entity from selling into the market it audits, and accreditation records are not public.

Haye KestelooSep 157 min read

DJI

DJI AP100 Parachute Is The “Priceless Below” Reveal, And It Does More For European Matrice 400 Crews Than A New Drone Would

DJI released the DJI AP100 Parachute for the Matrice 400 on July 8, 2026, a rear-mounted recovery system that deploys in under 600 milliseconds and brings the aircraft down at less than 5 meters per second (16.4 feet per second). The launch landed in the 8 AM EDT slot DJI had teased, under the tagline…

Haye KestelooJul 8

Skydio

AESA Grants Spain’s First SAIL III Drone Cargo Approval

Spain’s aviation safety agency AESA issued the country’s first SAIL III authorization for drone cargo transport on June 30, clearing operator CATUAV to fly RigiTech’s Eiger 3 beyond visual line of sight over populated areas. The approval covers transport and delivery of non-hazardous goods, and it lands one week after DroneXL covered the same Eiger…

Rafael SuárezJul 2

Potensic Atom 3 First Flight: New Sub-249 Gram Drone Flies Like A DJI Mini For A Lot Less Money

DJI

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.

Haye KestelooJun 23

Amazon

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 company told DroneXL through its public relations team on June 18 that planning frameworks built…

Rafael SuárezJun 18

Amazon

Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa

Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy tells XPONENTIAL Detroit he is moving Manna's manufacturing from Dublin to Tulsa and targeting 2,000-3,000 US jobs.

Haye KestelooMay 13

Texas Farm Bureau Warns FCC Drone Ban Threatens Agricultural Operations - DJI Agriculture Unveils Agras T100, T70P, and T25P at Agritechnica 2025 in Hannover

Italy

DJI Agricultural Drone Fleet Hits 600,000 As EU Moves To Lift Aerial Spray Ban; Italy’s Implementation Decree Stalls

DJI Agriculture says its global ag drone fleet hit 600,000 in 2025 as the EU drafts the first aerial spray reform in 16 years and Italy delays its decree.

Haye KestelooApr 30

FAA

EASA Releases Revision 24 of Air Operations Rules With Gyroplane and Flight Data Monitoring Updates

EASA releases Revision 24 of the Easy Access Rules for Air Operations, introducing machine-readable XML formats, gyroplane licensing, and stricter Flight Data Monitoring. Discover why these crewed aviation updates are a roadmap for future drone and UAM regulations.

Haye KestelooApr 14

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