The FAA approved Amazon delivery-drone research last month, but a company executive told a Senate panel that the approval took so long from its July application that the specific aircraft had ...

A prototype Amazon “Prime Air” delivery drone. In a new letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, an Amazon executive questions the FAA over its lack of action on Amazon’s petition to ...

Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future 14:08. It went on to say, "In the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Congress directed the FAA 'to safely accelerate the integration of civil ...

Amazon Prime Air has been granted a Part 135 air carrier certificate by the Federal Aviation Administration, bringing the company one step closer to making its drone delivery service a reality ...

While Amazon is the highest-profile company to get FAA approval to fly drones commercially, the agency has granted 48 petitions through Friday for purposes such as movie-making, smokestack ...

Amazon shares closed up 1.45 percent at $3,450.96 — a rise of 86 percent this year. Last week, Bezos became the world’s first $200 billionaire on the skyrocketing stock price. Filed under ...

Amazon’s MK27 drone, which it unveiled last year, has a hexagon-shaped frame and takes off and lands like a helicopter. Once airborne, it tilts and flies like a plane for greater efficiency.

The certificate comes with several strings attached that limit Amazon's full-fledged ambitions. During tests, the FAA will require the drones to remain within sight of the pilot -- who must also ...

Amazon won't let the FAA kill its dream of a drone delivery service, despite new proposals released over the weekend that seem to shoot it down.

Amazon, in a letter to the FAA, said that it has already conducted indoor tests. It says its drones will "travel over 50 miles per hour, and will carry 5-pound payloads." ...

Amazon said in June drone deliveries would begin “in months,” although it did not specify if that timeline applied to the US. The FAA will take public comments on the petition until August 28 ...

The FAA allows hobbyists and model aircraft makers to fly drones, but commercial use is mostly banned. Amazon is asking for an exemption so it can test its drones in the U.S.