Deployment
Prime Air MK30 at Ruskin, Florida, USA
The Amazon Prime Air MK30 is Amazon's current-generation autonomous last-mile delivery drone, recorded in the aerial form factor to fill the registry's delivery-drone coverage (it is the major US delivery drone with the most-documented safety record). Successor to the MK27-2, it is quieter with greater range and heat tolerance, carries onboard sense-and-avoid, and delivers small packages of up to about five pounds to customers' yards across markets including College Station, Texas, Tolleson, Arizona, Waco, Texas, Richardson, Texas, and parts of the UK and Italy.
Made by Amazon's Prime Air unit, it is recorded at pilot maturity rather than stable commercial because a pattern of FAA- and NTSB-investigated crashes has driven repeated US operational suspensions, including a January 2025 pause after dual Oregon test crashes and a Phoenix-area pause after an October 2025 double crane-strike. Its predecessor, the MK27, had its own 2021 crash near Pendleton, Oregon, in which a motor failure caused an uncontrolled fall and a lithium-battery fire that ignited acres of wheat stubble, recorded here as lineage rather than a separate entity.
Prime Air MK30 by Amazon · Operated by Amazon Prime Air · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Drones
Recent coverage
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Announced as one of 11 new Prime Air launch locations in Aug 2026 expansion to nearly 500 US cities.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Prime Air MK30 at Ruskin, Florida, USA.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-20
- Model
- Prime Air MK30
- Company
- Amazon
- Location
- Ruskin, Florida, USA
- Operator
- Amazon Prime Air
- Status
- announced
- First seen
- 2026-08-19
- ID
1c2ecc03-d6e7-4bfb-927d-87939aa2520a
Timeline
- Aug 2026First recordedPrime Air MK30 first documented operating at Ruskin, Florida, USA.
- Aug 2026Current status: announced, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Sources (1)
- Amazon's Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 U.S. cities · https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/amazons-prime-air-is-taking-off-in-nearly-500-u-s-cities/ · 2026-08-19
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-20
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-20
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
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