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EHang EH216-S Completes First Public Pilotless Flight In Hong Kong Cyberport — Sep 1, 2026 — EHang's EH216-S became the first pilotless passenger eVTOL to fly publicly in Hong Kong, taking off from the Cyberport waterfront vertiport on August...Palladyne AI Teams With NORDA Dynamics To Fuse SwarmOS And Ukraine-Proven Terminal Guidance — Aug 28, 2026 — Palladyne AI and Ukrainian-Estonian drone specialist NORDA Dynamics are integrating SwarmOS with NORDA's combat-proven Underdog Autonomy Module to let...Amazon Plots Sixfold Prime Air Expansion To Nearly 500 US Cities By Year End — Aug 25, 2026 — Amazon is preparing to widen Prime Air drone delivery from 11 metro areas to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold footprint ex...Uber Invests in Zipline for Uber Eats Drone Deliveries, Targets 1M/Day by 2029 — Aug 19, 2026 — Uber and Zipline are taking Uber Eats airborne. The two announced a strategic partnership and undisclosed Uber investment, with the first drone delive...US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — Aug 17, 2026 — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...Eve Air Mobility Completes First Partial Transition eVTOL Flight — Aug 7, 2026 — Eve's engineering prototype fired up its rear pusher propeller in flight for the first time, hitting 30 knots ground speed and closing in on wing-born...Uber Pledges $10B for AV Fleet as Q2 Growth Slows — Aug 7, 2026 — Uber's Q2 2026 earnings pinned the ride-hailing giant's autonomous future on more than $10 billion of equity stakes and fleet spending, targeting 120,...AeroVironment Bags $117M U.S. Army Order For 82 P550 eVTOL Recon Drones — Jul 31, 2026 — AeroVironment landed a $117.3M U.S. Army contract on July 20 for 82 P550 electric VTOL drones, the initial full-rate procurement for the Army's Long R...Factorial Wins First Commercial Drone Battery Order As Solid-State Enters Aerospace — Jul 27, 2026 — Nasdaq-listed Factorial Energy secured its first commercial drone battery order on July 24, extending its lithium-metal cells from cars into aerospace...SpaceX Targets July 23 For Starship Flight 13 With First V3 Starlinks — Jul 23, 2026 — SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 from Starbase Texas at 6:45 p.m. ET on July 23, deploying 20 next-generation V3 Starlink satellites in the m...Boeing To Debut MQ-28 Ghost Bat At Farnborough Airshow — Jul 19, 2026 — Boeing said its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft will make its Farnborough debut on static display when the UK airshow opens Jul...Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides In Miami, First Beyond Texas & California — Jul 7, 2026 — Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3, running fully unsupervised Model Ys across a 20-square-mile geofence in the first market outsid...NATO Buys Up To Five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Drones At Ankara Summit — Jul 7, 2026 — Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway will procure up to five MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft as NATO expands its ISR fleet, with Airbus and other Europ...SpaceX Flies 81 Payloads on Transporter-17 With Korea's CAS500-4 — Jul 7, 2026 — SpaceX launched 81 payloads — including South Korea's CAS500-4 Earth-observation satellite — on the 17th Transporter rideshare mission from Vandenberg...Elroy Air to List on Nasdaq at $1B via SPAC to Scale Chaparral Cargo Drone — Jul 5, 2026 — Elroy Air will go public through a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II at roughly $1 billion enterprise value, adding $165M in PIPE to scale i...MicroVision and Avular Partner on Lidar-Equipped Autonomous Drones — Jun 30, 2026 — MicroVision and Dutch drone maker Avular signed an MoU to fuse solid-state lidar and perception software with Avular's modular aerial platforms for GP...Zipline Adds Austin as Texas Drone Delivery Push Accelerates — Jun 29, 2026 — Zipline will launch autonomous drone delivery in Austin later this year, its third Texas market in under twelve months, backed by $800M in fresh fundi...Joby Lands Mobile eVTOL Simulator At Dayton Air Show Ahead Of Ohio Production — Jun 15, 2026 — Joby Aviation parks its mobile flight simulator at the Dayton Air Show this weekend as part of its Electric Skies Tour, showcasing the S4 air taxi ahe...Federal Judge Dismisses Archer Fraud Counterclaim Against Joby In eVTOL Court Fight — Jun 13, 2026 — A U.S. federal judge tossed Archer Aviation's fraud counterclaims accusing Joby of hiding China ties, while also dismissing some of Joby's trade-secre...Airbus Unveils U760 Ravenstorm UCCA At ILA Berlin — Jun 10, 2026 — Airbus has revealed the U760 Ravenstorm uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft at ILA Berlin, anchoring an expanded UAS portfolio under a new U-prefix...