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A Zipline drone parachuted onto Highway 6 on 4 September. No injury, no $500 of damage and no airworthiness certificate means no mandatory report.

Motorola closed a $1.5B counter-drone acquisition on August 20, three weeks after DHS opened a contract worth the same amount to twelve companies.

DoorDash won FAA Part 135 certification in July and starts flying its own drones this autumn. Wing and Flytrex are partners, and now suppliers.

The company that was going to fly the Paris Olympics is certifying an aircraft for flying clubs. Supernal cut 80% of staff. Vertical trades at $0.60.

WISPR got Green UAS certification in February and was on the Pentagon's Blue UAS Cleared List ten weeks later. Four platforms joined in 2026.

AeroVironment took a $51M Switchblade order on August 26. In the same seven months the Army let a rival into LASSO and the Marines picked Anduril.

The two flew 8,000 overlapping flights over two Texas suburbs with no conflicts. Neither system tells the other when an aircraft is in trouble.

Matternet's SEC filings show $392,739 of revenue in the year to 30 September 2025, a $145.7M accumulated deficit and an auditor going-concern opinion.

XTI Aerospace told the SEC its late second-quarter 10-Q is expected to disclose going-concern doubt, days after chairman and CEO Scott Pomeroy resigned.

A Section 232 proclamation puts 100% duties on drones over 25kg and on thermal imagers, and 25% on everything lighter, starting September 3.