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Prime Air MK30 at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy

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 · Unverified · Drones

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Machine-readable surfaces

Amazon's first European drone delivery operations, announced in San Salvo, a town in the central Abruzzo region of Italy, in December 2024.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Prime Air MK30 at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier
Unverifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-27
Company
Amazon
Status
operational
First seen
2024-12-01
ID
7108118b-2e38-42f4-8710-643ead30f4b5

Timeline

  1. Dec 2024
    First recorded
    Prime Air MK30 first documented operating at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy.
  2. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Prime Air MK30 operates in San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (1)

  1. Amazon to expand Prime Air drone delivery in Italy, UK, and U.S. · https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-updates · 2024-12-01
Methodology: Unreviewed · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-27

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-27

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: pilot

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: aerial

Sources by quality tier

1
unclassified
Unclassified source

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Methodology surface for Prime Air MK30 at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy.

Common questions

What is the Prime Air MK30 deployment at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy?
Prime Air MK30, built by Amazon, is recorded as a deployment at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy on the DEPLOY registry. Amazon Prime Air operates the deployment.
Who operates Prime Air MK30 at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy?
Amazon Prime Air operates this deployment as a customer of Amazon, the manufacturer of Prime Air MK30.
When did the Prime Air MK30 deployment at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy go live?
The deployment is recorded as starting December 1, 2024 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the Prime Air MK30 deployment at San Salvo, Abruzzo, Italy?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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