{"id":112252,"date":"2020-08-31T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/amazon-wins-faa-approval-for-prime-air-drone-delivery-fleet"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:22:51","slug":"amazon-wins-faa-approval-for-prime-air-drone-delivery-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/amazon-wins-faa-approval-for-prime-air-drone-delivery-fleet","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-wins-faa-approval-for-prime-air-drone-delivery-fleet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=AMZN\">Amazon<\/a> received federal approval to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, a milestone that allows the company to expand unmanned package delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The approval will give Amazon broad privileges to \u201csafely and efficiently deliver packages to customers,\u201d the agency said. The certification comes under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/advanced_operations\/package_delivery_drone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 135 of FAA regulations<\/a>, which gives Amazon the ability to carry property on small drones \u201cbeyond the visual line of sight\u201d of the operator.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it will use the FAA\u2019s certification to begin testing customer deliveries. The company said it went through rigorous training and submitted detailed evidence that its drone delivery operations are safe, including demonstrating the technology for FAA inspectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon received federal approval to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, a milestone that allows the company to expand unmanned package delivery. The approval will give Amazon broad privileges to \u201csafely and efficiently deliver packages to customers,\u201d the agency said. The certification comes under Part 135 of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}