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St. Charles County Clears Path for BRINC Drone Program
St. Charles County, Missouri just passed the ordinance it needed to get drones over emergency calls. The county council approved a measure allowing the St. Charles County Police Department to establish memorandums of understanding with schools, municipal facilities, and other…
North Las Vegas Teens Train for Drone Pilot Careers
A group of ninth and tenth graders at a North Las Vegas charter school are spending their electives doing something most drone enthusiasts wish they’d started earlier: flying, crashing, troubleshooting, and doing it again. They’re not playing. They have a…
Joby Aviation’s Manhattan Demo Closes Quieter Than I Expected: A Witness Account From Blade Lounge East
Joby Aviation closed its New York City flight campaign on Friday afternoon with a final piloted demonstration into Blade Lounge East at the East 34th Street Heliport, and I was on the pad when N545JX touched down. The aircraft came…
DJI Faces $1.56 Billion Loss as FCC Ban Sidelines 39 Products in 2026
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. DJI reveals that 25 unreleased products are stuck in regulatory limbo right now. Reliable Robotics has raised $160 million for what you’ll see is a…
218 Wildfire Drone Incursions Last Year, Most Ever Recorded
The U.S. Forest Service reported 218 drone sightings over active wildfires in 2025, more than the previous seven years combined. Most happened during the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles, where 184 drones entered restricted airspace, as the Rogue…
Singapore Bets on Drone Boxes for Island-Wide Public Safety
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency unveiled a two-tier drone box system on April 28 designed to put aerial response within reach of any incident on the island. The pitch is simple. Replace the hour it currently takes to…
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…
United Walks Back San Diego “Drone Strike” After Boeing 737 Inspection Shows No Damage
A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 on final approach to San Diego International Airport reported hitting a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on the morning of April 29, 2026. Hours later, that story had quietly fallen apart. United Flight 1980, a…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Launch Spot Was Filmed With A Sony FX3 Across South Africa And Hong Kong
South African filmmaker Jacques Crafford published a behind-the-scenes breakdown on April 29 showing how the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 global launch commercial was actually produced. The shoot ran 8 days across South Africa and Hong Kong with a skeleton crew.…
Minneapolis Drone Journalist Rob Levine Forces FAA To Pull No-Fly Zones That Followed Invisible ICE Vehicles Across America
In January 2026, as Minneapolis was still processing the death of 37-year-old Renee Good at the hands of a federal agent, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a flight restriction that created roving 3,000-foot no-fly zones around every Department of…
Drones Hit Record Number of UK Air Ambulance Missions
The UK Civil Aviation Authority confirmed nine air ambulance flights were disrupted by drones flying too close to helicopters during emergency missions in 2025. That’s the highest annual figure ever recorded, up from six cases in 2024 and eight in…