Regulator
The FAA certified Wing as an air carrier, the licence an airline needs. It was the first drone delivery company to get it.
A regulator's decision · Sets Wing's stage
What the source says
“Wing is the first drone delivery firm to get certification from the FAA.”
What it means
Wing, from Wing (Alphabet), is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: People working remotely can steer it or take over.
More on Wing
- Wing said it had completed more than one million US drone deliveries so far this year.
- Wing said it planned to open about seven Walmart drone delivery hubs across the St. Louis area at once, rather than testing one store first, reaching tens of thousands of households.
- Wing said it had launched Walmart drone delivery as one Charlotte-area service from seven Supercenters, some of which had been flying since December 2025, with two more stores due within a week.
- Kirkwood's City Council let a draft special use permit for Wing drone deliveries, which capped deliveries at 2.5 pounds, die without a motion, DroneXL reported.
- Wing named Denver and Seattle as Walmart drone delivery cities for 2027, bringing the plan to 19 metro areas. Fourteen of them were not yet flying.
- Wing said it had made more than one million paid deliveries worldwide. It did not say how many were in the US.