Alphabet Drone Service Wing Launched First Commercial Delivery in USA
Alphabet owned drone firm Wing started first commercial drone delivery in the Christiansburg, Virginia.
With an expanded Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Wing today became the first company to operate a commercial air delivery service via drone directly to homes in the United States.
Wing’s FAA permissions are the first to allow multiple pilots to oversee multiple unmanned aircraft making commercial deliveries simultaneously to the general public, paving the way for the most advanced drone delivery service in the nation.
Wing collaborates with logistics services like FedEx Express, Walgreens, and local Virginia retailer Sugar Magnolia in the United States to offer this form of local air delivery to customers.
FedEx is completing the fi...