https://www.commercialuavnews.com Explore Commercial UAV News for comprehensive updates on the commercial drone sector, including tech advancements, regulatory shifts, and industry events shaping UAV applications worldwide. 31d36fad-4e4a-43d7-80a5-1adb8fdd25ab https://www.commercialuavnews.com/states-sue-faa-drone-delivery-environmental-review Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:35:06 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:35:08 -0400 Regulations Drone Delivery News 0 1 On Monday, Sept. 28, a group of 15 states, plus Harris County, Texas, sued the FAA, challenging the agency's review of the environmental impact of commercial drone package delivery. The suit, which was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the... ]]> c62fa550-32a3-46c2-9eb0-373a2064e408 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/drone-pricing-and-quoting-guide Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:00 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:02 -0400 Uncrewed Insights 0 1 Contributed by Guy Liebert, Founder, Droneview.be A commercial drone job has four stages people talk about: plan the mission, fly it, process the data, deliver the result. A fifth stage happens before any of them, but gets almost no attention and... ]]> eb84ab54-1c19-4328-b4be-18269c0b7b2c https://www.commercialuavnews.com/matternet-m3-drone-delivery-platform Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:45:58 -0400 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:46:03 -0400 Hardware News Drone Delivery 0 1 On Monday, drone delivery company Matternet unveiled its new M3, the next generation of its autonomous drone delivery platform. The California-based company, the only one in the world with an FAA Type-Certificated drone delivery system, said... ]]> 1c34905f-4d1c-4b78-9cc4-0e7aec6ef023 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/drone-workflow-resiliency-diversity Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:04:00 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:34:54 -0400 Components Services and Training Operational Tools Uncrewed Insights Regulations 0 1 Last week's webinar on building a resilient drone program workflow brought together four leaders from different corners of the commercial drone industry: construction, state aviation, energy, and systems engineering. Despite their diverging... ]]> bd642212-2ee1-45e6-8fbf-0d741063a7d9 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/gdu-p200-series-drone-long-range-infrastructure-inspection Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:48:00 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:47 -0400 Energy & Utilities Infrastructure & Transport Operational Tools Sensors and Cameras Hardware 0 1 Sponsored by GDU Tech Infrastructure inspection has a range problem. Utility corridors stretch for miles, pipelines cross remote terrain, and disaster zones generally don’t sit near a launch pad. GDU’s P200 series UAV was built around... ]]> 37b487e4-db9b-42cd-aca9-32afebb1f0db https://www.commercialuavnews.com/drone-laws-amazon-delivery-medical-delivery-containers Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:56:00 -0400 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:05:18 -0400 Regulations Drone Delivery 0 1 This week's roundup features stories on important discussions that happened at Commercial UAV Expo around drone law, recent concerns from Texas residents in Amazon Prime Air's drone delivery path, and a new approval for a special container designed... ]]> f815ce92-be30-4952-876d-25113ab9e7c3 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/rev-labs-staggered-blade-propeller-design-commercial-uav-expo Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:31:00 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:22 -0400 Uncrewed Insights Hardware 0 1 One of the few certainties of our modern industry is that drones of all types, from multicopters to fixed-wing, will be using propellers for the foreseeable future. Although jet engines are the engine of choice for traditional passenger- and... ]]> 25207d67-9e6e-4f82-9db2-5af20ed3f5bf https://www.commercialuavnews.com/cuav-expo-roundtable-sessions-insights Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:38:00 -0400 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:49:00 -0400 Uncrewed Insights Forestry & Agriculture Regulations Event News 0 1 There was no shortage of topics to discuss at this year's Commercial UAV Expo. To make sure those conversations happened with the right people and were accessible to everyone, the Roundtable Sessions held space for exactly that. Instead of a... ]]> e2e92b95-666d-4918-9b6b-662f6259fca9 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/skydio-f10-lightrunner-fixed-wing-drone-megadock Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:19:00 -0400 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:57:29 -0400 Hardware Inspections News Public Safety & Emergency Services Energy & Utilities 0 1 On Wednesday, at Skydio’s annual in-person event Ascend, CEO Adam Bry ended his keynote presentation which was livestreamed outside Las Vegas, Nevada – which was livestreamed – with an introduction to the company’s latest... ]]> ef7e4027-6404-4d7d-9f8a-1e9485f77ac1 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/skyports-esmart-sp-enw-project-volt-drone-in-a-box-fault-response Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:07:00 -0400 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:07:34 -0400 Energy & Utilities Software, Data and Visualization Operational Tools Inspections News 0 1 On Wednesday, UK-based Skyports Drone Services announced a partnership with eSmart Systems and SP Electricity North West (SP ENW) for what they are calling “Project VOLT” (Visual Overhead Line Tracking). Through this partnership, the... ]]> 966ea1e2-b126-40dc-8298-3dbe2d7c9b24 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/faa-part-135-drone-delivery-decision-precedent Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:17:00 -0400 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:14:26 -0400 Drone Delivery Regulations Uncrewed Insights 0 1 The FAA’s final environmental decision on Part 135 drone package delivery may appear to be about parcels, propellers, and noise footprints.1 It is really about precedent and about who will define the next routinely occupied layer of... ]]> 0dc7e44e-6bc2-4ce2-9f46-89fa1ec5ea60 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/bvlos-demonstrations-docked-drones-regulatory-advice-assistant Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:29:00 -0400 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:13:45 -0400 Operational Tools News Services and Training AAM Drone Delivery Regulations 0 1 This week’s news round up looks at a recent live BVLOS demonstration, a new roof-top docking system for food delivery, and a new platform to help pilots with regulatory questions. Northern Plains UAS Test Site BVLOS Demonstration The Northern... ]]> f4a2db54-e746-4e14-ab2d-9afc66f43b79 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/drone-industry-pc-era-platform-ecosystem Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:29:00 -0400 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:40:10 -0400 Uncrewed Insights Operational Tools Event News 0 1 At the most recent edition of Commercial UAV Expo, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, the exhibit floor was the largest in the show's history and showcased a remarkable variety of components, from propellers and batteries to docking stations and... ]]> f9fab262-8ceb-471f-a170-e038d430b3a0 https://www.commercialuavnews.com/commercial-uav-expo-2026-regulatory-recap Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:11:00 -0400 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:17:36 -0400 Regulations Event News 0 1 Every year, regulation takes a central role at Commercial UAV Expo, but this year seemed to take that idea to a different level. Part 108 is close enough to finalized that the conversations on stage moved past "what will the rule say" and into "what... ]]>