Only Fourth Authorized Drone Delivery Provider In U.S.

Flytrex announced it has received FAA approval for beyond visual line of sight, or BVLOS drone delivery operations in the United States. Flytrex is only the fourth drone delivery service to receive U.S. authorization, which will enable the company to expand its service to over 100 million people the 37 largest metro areas in the country.

The company currently operates in Granbury and Little Elm, Texas, as well as Holly Springs and Raeford, North Carolina.

The BVLOS approval comes after a decade of design, engineering, and testing to demonstrate that its drones can operate safely while sharing airspace with other manned and unmanned aircraft. Flytrex began working with the FAA in 2017 to begin the certification process that is not much different in terms of testing methodology from typical manned aviation approval.

After meeting the same rigorous safety standards that apply to conventional aviation, Flytrex now joins Wing, Zipline, and Amazon as the only drone delivery services currently authorized for such operations in the U.S.

Yariv Bash, CEO and Co-founder of Flytrex explained, "After nearly a decade of development, this BVLOS approval transforms our entire business model. We can now outperform any other traditional on-demand delivery method —monitoring fleets of drones from centralized command centers rather than posting observers across delivery zones. With BVLOS, we can now build the infrastructure to bring drone delivery to 100 million Americans."

The key advantage of BVLOS approval is that it permits the operator to monitor multiple drones from a single ops center, increasing delivery volume and significantly decreasing costs. Previously, the lack of BVLOS ability required each drone to be individually monitored by visual observers on the ground tracking it through its entire flight.

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