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 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.
- Wing began Walmart drone deliveries in Greater Orlando from two Supercenters, in Apopka and Clermont, its first Florida market.
- Walmart ran drone delivery, with Wing and Zipline, from 66 stores across four states and five metro areas.