{"id":24634,"date":"2023-01-30T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24634"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:58:56","slug":"flytrex-partner-causey-aviation-unmanned-to-begin-drone-delivery-operations-under-part-135-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/flytrex-partner-causey-aviation-unmanned-to-begin-drone-delivery-operations-under-part-135-certification\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Flytrex Partner, Causey Aviation Unmanned, to Begin Drone Delivery Operations Under Part 135 Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flytrex<\/a> announced its longtime partner Causey Aviation Unmanned<\/a> (CAU) was granted Standard Part 135 Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowing Flytrex to operate and complete long-range on-demand commercial drone deliveries in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This milestone comes after years of rigorous training and testing verifying that Flytrex\u2019s drone delivery service maintains the highest safety standards. With this part 135 Certification<\/a>, Flytrex and CAU will further expand their drone delivery service nationwide \u2013 eventually offering food, drinks and other goods to the more than 82 million eligible back and front yards across the U.S. This approval has only been granted to a prestigious list of select companies \u2013 including Amazon Prime Air, Alphabet\u2019s Wing, UPS and Zipline \u2013 to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe live in an era of instant gratification, where consumers\nwant to get their food or goods faster, more reliably, more economically and\nmore sustainably \u2013 and drone delivery has risen to the occasion,\u201d said Yariv\nBash, CEO and cofounder of Flytrex. \u201cFlytrex\u2019s continued success delivering to\ncustomers throughout North Carolina and Texas has put us ahead of the curve.\nWith this certification, we look forward to bringing our super swift, sustainable\nand safe airborne delivery systems to every backyard across the US.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2022, Flytrex opened its fifth U.S. drone\ndelivery station in Durham, North Carolina. Durham marked the fourth station in\nthe \u2018First in Flight\u2019 state, joining three other operational stations in\nFayetteville, Raeford, and Holly Springs; and prior to this, Flytrex expanded\nits drone delivery service to Granbury, Texas, just outside of Dallas-Fort\nWorth. The services operate in cooperation with CAU \u2013 delivering tens of\nthousands of items to hundreds of thousands of homes across its service areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFlytrex\u2019s technological expertise, innovation and\nsafety-first approach has helped elevate our service to new heights in drone\ndelivery,\u201d said Jeff Causey, Founder and COO of Causey Aviation. \u201cOur close\ncooperation with the FAA has provided just the right tailwinds to help bring\nabout this drone revolution. We are honored to receive this certification,\nbringing us one step closer to making drone delivery standard for all US\nconsumers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since successfully launching the world\u2019s first fully\nautonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2017, Flytrex\nand CAU have been working closely with regulators to help ensure the highest\nsafety standards in getting drone delivery off the ground. Together, they\nparticipated in the FAA\u2019s UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP), which concluded\nin October 2020, as well as the FAA\u2019s subsequent initiative, BEYOND, working\nwith the North Carolina Department of Transportation to help tackle the\nremaining challenges of UAS integration \u2013 bringing swift, affordable and\nsustainable on-demand drone delivery to more partners, communities and\nconsumers across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flytrex announced its longtime partner Causey Aviation Unmanned (CAU) was granted Standard Part 135 Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowing Flytrex to operate and complete long-range on-demand commercial drone deliveries in the United States. This milestone comes after years of rigorous training and testing verifying that Flytrex\u2019s drone delivery service maintains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,53,62,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-north-carolina","category-texas","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bag_Drop_Drone-edit-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24639,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions\/24639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}