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Eleven US markets as of August 2026, when Omaha came online from the Papillion, Nebraska fulfillment center. Arizona's West Valley was the December 2024 launch that restarted the program, and Memphis, upstate New York and Nampa, Idaho have all been in the pipeline. Outside the US, only Darlington in England is flying, and that permission expires at the end of 2026.

At the Omaha launch, $2.99 per delivery for Prime members and $4.99 for everyone else, with drone delivery free on Prime orders over $50. That is a different model from Walmart's partners, and it makes Prime Air a paid convenience upgrade rather than a loss-leader on every order.

Five pounds, and the package has to fit inside a shoebox. In practice that means phone chargers, medications, batteries and small household items, and rules out most of a normal shopping cart. Amazon's standing argument is that the 5-pound limit still covers roughly 85% of the items it ships.

Amazon promises under two hours and says some Omaha deliveries land in about 20 minutes. That is slower as a headline promise than the 30-minute retail model Wing and Walmart advertise, largely because Prime Air flies from fulfillment centers on the edge of a metro rather than from a store inside it.

It has the most publicly documented incident record in US drone delivery, and we have covered each one. Amazon suspended US deliveries in January 2025 after multiple crashes and resumed that April. On October 1, 2025, two MK30s hit the boom of the same active construction crane in Tolleson, Arizona within minutes of each other, and one collision ejected a battery that caught fire. The FAA and NTSB both opened investigations, and the aircraft's history followed it to England before the marketing did.

On footprint, yes, and the reason is real estate rather than technology. About 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, and Wing is contracted to fly from more than 270 of them by 2027, while Amazon flies from a much smaller number of fulfillment centers. Walmart crossed 1 million drone deliveries in May 2026. Amazon's counter is that it owns the whole stack, from the aircraft to the item, with no retail partner to split economics with.

Because Amazon is both a drone operator and the store where most of our readers buy drones. This archive collects Prime Air coverage alongside the price drops and deal posts we publish for DJI and other hardware sold through Amazon. If you are here for the drone delivery program, the intro above and the start-here links are the thread to follow.