# Prime Air MK30: robot model

Canonical ID: `989509b8-2112-4a9d-b37a-55d09be1aaa2`

- **Slug:** amazon-prime-air-mk30
- **Form factor:** aerial
- **Maturity stage:** pilot
- **Lifecycle:** active
- **Deployments registered:** 0

## Specs

- **notes:** [object Object],[object Object]
- **specs:** Amazon Prime Air MK30: Amazon's current-generation autonomous delivery drone (successor to the MK27-2), quieter and with greater range/heat tolerance, with onboard sense-and-avoid; delivers small packages (up to ~5 lb) to customers' yards. Deployments incl. College Station TX, Tolleson AZ (Phoenix area), Waco TX, Richardson TX, plus UK/Italy. Repeated crash-driven US operational pauses (Jan 2025; Phoenix-area Oct 2025). Made by Amazon (Prime Air). Predecessor MK27 had its own 2021 Pendleton OR crash + field fire (motor failure).
- **formFactor:** aerial (autonomous last-mile delivery drone; sense-and-avoid; repeated crash-driven US operational pauses)

## Deployments

_No deployments registered for this model._

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

_Suppliers appear when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Incidents affecting Prime Air MK30 (4)

- [Amazon MK30 delivery drone struck an apartment building in Richardson, Texas; backyard grass fire](/incidents/amazon-prime-air-richardson-building-strike-2026.md), 2026-02-15 · Property damage
- [Amazon MK30 delivery drone clipped an internet cable in Waco, Texas; FAA probe](/incidents/amazon-prime-air-waco-cable-crash-2025.md), 2025-11-25 · Malfunction
- [Two Amazon MK30 drones struck the same construction crane in Tolleson, Arizona](/incidents/amazon-prime-air-tolleson-crane-crash-2025.md), 2025-10-01 · Collision
- [Two Amazon MK30 delivery drones crashed within minutes at an Oregon test site](/incidents/amazon-prime-air-oregon-dual-crash-2024.md), 2024-12-16 · Malfunction

_Includes incidents linked directly to this model or to deployments of it. Retracted incidents excluded from this view but reachable at their canonical URLs._

## Common questions

### What is Prime Air MK30?

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.

### Who makes Prime Air MK30?

Prime Air MK30 is made by Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded in 1994.

### Where is Prime Air MK30 deployed?

No verified deployments of Prime Air MK30 are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

### What is Prime Air MK30's maturity stage?

Prime Air MK30 is at the pilot stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Pilot stage means at least one named-customer trial deployment is verified.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-mk30-design
2. https://dronexl.co/2025/05/16/why-amazon-mk30-drones-crashed-sensor-issues-exposed/
3. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/amazon-drones-crash-crane-arizona

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