Drone-industry outlet DroneXL launched a public Drone Delivery Tracker on September 8, 2026 that catalogues every US operator flying under an FAA authorization — Amazon Prime Air, Wing and Zipline to start — with 40 Amazon hubs mapped to street address, 368 Wing nests, five Zipline authorizations and eight logged incidents on one page.
Every Hub, Every Metro, Every Incident
The Drone Delivery Tracker maps Amazon's 40 hubs with a 7.5-mile operating circle each, the radius Amazon's own FAA filings define, and shows Chicago, Baton Rouge and Omaha in FAA review. It plots Wing's five authorized metros (DFW, Central Florida, Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte) totalling 368 nests at up to 400 flights a day each. Zipline is authorized for up to 75 sites in Dallas-Fort Worth and has a 75-site Seattle proposal pending. Incidents include Amazon's Pendleton crashes, Tolleson crane strikes, Waco cable, Richardson apartment building and a Richmond swimming-pool release, plus Zipline parachute landings in Greenville on July 26 and on Highway 6 in Cypress on September 4. Wing has no US incident in DroneXL's record so far.
Fifteen Questions For Each Operator
All three companies received the same 15 questions on September 8, with Wing and Zipline each receiving 15 more specific to their aircraft; all responses are due September 15. Amazon still owes answers to eight prior questions sent September 3 covering the MK30's weight-to-payload ratio, parachute-less recovery, collision behavior and single points of failure. Each operator page now reads "Pending" until it replies, and every silence gets a dated public marker.
Weight, Payload And Noise Side By Side
A companion aircraft page compares Amazon's 83.2-pound MK30 (five-pound payload, no parachute, 13-foot drop) with Zipline's 63-pound Platform 2 (eight-pound payload, 330-foot hover, tethered droid and parachute deployed twice) and Wing's 14-pound 7000W-B and 24.3-pound 8000-A. Only Amazon's noise figures are public today — 63.7 dBA SEL at 200 feet, 82 dBA at 20 feet hover — extracted from the FAA's own Pendleton acoustic testing. Wing and Zipline noise data sits in DFW and Florida FAA appendices and is queued for next Monday's tracker sweep.
Why It Matters For US Cities
The launch lands as Amazon Prime Air targets nearly 500 cities and towns by year-end, Wing pushes 270+ Walmart stores and Uber and Zipline chase one million Uber Eats drone deliveries a day by 2029. FAA filings are 300-page PDFs; the tracker turns them into a searchable, hub-by-hub view for the towns underneath, updated with every story and swept weekly. Related coverage: AeroVironment's LOCUST counter-drone laser order and UFORCE's $500M round for drone defense.
Reporting based on coverage from DroneXL and FAA Public Involvement and Environmental Review filings.