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Last updated October 12, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
DJI ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 service October 31 and Agras T16 and T20 service November 2, as the FCC weighs barring the spray drones that replace them.
Twenty new DroneXL resident guides for towns facing drone delivery: who flies, who decides, what towns can still do, and eight dates before Nov. 10.
Ukraine's Airlogix is in talks to raise $100 million at over $2 billion, Forbes reports. The price rests on drone factories in Germany, Canada and the UK.
Zipline's Austin hub sits outside Round Rock city limits. The city says its zoning has no rule for drone hubs and will write one after a second opens.
Belvedere, CA votes Oct. 12 on Marin's first drone delivery ordinance. DroneXL's guide: what the city decides, what the FAA owns, what residents can do.
AirShaper says Wingtra simulated 180 WingtraRAY candidates in six months and gained 56% payload and 12% efficiency over the WingtraOne.
The FCC votes October 29 on ending recognition of every mainland China test lab by December 1, 2028. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P was tested at one of them.
FAA Order JO 7200.23E, effective Oct. 31, exempts tower inspections from ATC coordination above the grid, writes rules for Class E airports and more.
Pujan Gajjar, 24, is indicted on four counts over alleged drone flights at Love Field and DFW. By DroneXL's reading, the certificate counts carry the time.
FCC votes October 29 on lifting a 1991 airplane-phone rule that kept drones off 50 MHz of carrier spectrum. AT&T, Verizon and Zipline backed it.
Zipline opened delivery in Round Rock on October 9 for 5,000 residents, two days before comments close on the FAA's draft review of its Austin plans.
From October 26, the FAA Part 107 knowledge test draws chart questions from current sectionals, not the printed supplement. One in six already fails.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.
Amazon told North Myrtle Beach the FAA decides overflights and its drones stay under 68 decibels. The FAA says ask Amazon and the city. Its table says 82.
DJI's October 14 teaser shows its next dock, the leaked Dock 4, swapping a charged battery into a new drone. Dock 3 charges in place. The US can't buy it.
DJI Neo 3 specs and features from three weeks of leaks: square 1/1.1-inch sensor, 192.7 g, three-cell battery, caged props, RC Mini. No price or date yet.
My beginner's guide to the DJI Osmo 360 II: the bundles, the buttons, memory, charging, activation, the menus, four ways to record, mics and DJI Mimo.
A DJI Neo 3 battery label reads 1,800 mAh, 10.5 V, 18.9 Wh: three cells, seven pins, no Neo 2 pack will fit. Jasper Ellens shows how the props come off.
Amazon is hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals in Sydney or Canberra to win every CASA approval Prime Air needs. No site or date has been named.
Laredo's police chief says officers will mitigate drones over the DoubleTree fire. Federal law lets local police do that only with FBI certification.
Worcester wants a report on its power over Amazon's planned Westborough drones. Shrewsbury says towns are preempted. Hopkinton votes to fight.
Leaked video shows the DJI Neo 3 flying from the RC Mini, which pairs from its own screen and hides a scroll wheel. The Neo 2 looks small beside it.
Upstate University Hospital opened a drone port for Air Upstate, with clearance to fly to Wynn Hospital in Utica and Causey Aviation named as partner.
Anduril's $3.7B Maryland shipyard will build Virginia-class sub parts. Trump promised drone subs and a 40% taxpayer stake neither release mentions.
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