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FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have five stories for you this week — it’s a longer one, but there’s a lot of important information packed in. FAA Files Long-Overdue Section 2209 NPRM First up, the FAA has…
Grilling Greg: Your Toughest Drone Registration, Airspace, and Part 107 Questions Answered
I’m not Greg — it’s Ben. But Greg is here with me and we’re putting him to the test. We searched for the hottest topics and the burning questions drone pilots are asking right now, and we’re forcing Greg to…
Olathe Drone Ordinance Pulled, and the ICE NOTAM Shows Why Pilots Have to Fight at Every Level
The Olathe, Kansas City Council was scheduled to vote Tuesday night on an ordinance that would have banned drone takeoffs and landings within one mile of any temporary event in the city drawing 100 or more people. The rule would…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM After Decade-Long Wait, Industry Has 60 Days To Shape The Rule
The Federal Aviation Administration filed its long-overdue Section 2209 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for public inspection this morning, opening a 60-day comment window that will determine how thousands of fixed-site facilities can apply for permanent drone restrictions over their property.…
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…
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…
Russia Builds Shahed Drones With Teen Labor at Alabuga
A 16-year-old named Darina stares into a YouTube camera and announces she’ll soon earn 150,000 rubles a month, roughly $2,000, assembling drones at what her recruiters call the world’s largest drone factory. Her parents are proud. She wants other teenagers…
Antigravity A1 Spring Update Delivers Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance, Voice Control, and Timelapse
Antigravity pushed a major software update to the A1 today, April 28, 2026, expanding the world’s first 8K 360-degree drone with five new capabilities. The update addresses one of the most-cited gaps in the A1’s original feature set and arrives…
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…
Beijing’s Drone Ban Takes Effect Friday, Squeezing DJI On Its Home Turf
Beijing’s near-total ban on consumer drone sales and storage takes effect this Friday, May 1, with the deadline for existing drone owners to register their equipment with police falling on Wednesday, April 30. That gives Beijing residents three days to…
DJI Neo at $149: The Cheapest Entry Point Into DJI’s Ecosystem
If you’ve been thinking about getting into drones but kept talking yourself out of it because of price—or because learning to fly looked intimidating—there’s a real reason to pay attention right now. The DJI Neo just hit $149 at Amazon,…
VooMax Breeze Is A Fikaxo Rebrand of a DJI Drone—And Fikaxo Doesn’t Even List It
Security researcher Konrad Iturbe has identified the VooMax Breeze 8K drone selling on Amazon as a rebrand of a drone already tied to Fikaxo Technology Inc., one of the suspected DJI shell companies DroneXL reported on in September 2025. Iturbe,…