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Wing is a drone-delivery company launched from Google's X in 2012 that is scaling small-package logistics in dense residential areas.

Latest update Oct 6, 2026

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Overview

It says it is making thousands of deliveries to homes each day. As of October 6, 2026, Wing's Walmart waitlist still lists five live U.S. metros (Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, and Orlando) and 14 coming-soon markets after an October 5 announcement adding Denver and Seattle for 2027. San Francisco Bay Area remains listed as coming soon with no residential launch date. On October 1, 2026 Kirkwood City Council held a public hearing on an 18-drone nest at the Kirkwood Walmart and set further consideration for October 14. FAA Part 108 (RIN 2120-AL82) remained Pending Review at OIRA, received July 10; the nominal 90-day clock still runs to October 8 and had not expired. Lowe's still names only the Matthews, N.C. DoorDash/Wing pilot; Wing's newsroom has no Lowe's post. CEO remains Adam Woodworth.

wing.comUpdated Oct 6, 2026

Analysis · 5 min read · Jul 1, 2026The long view on Wing: strategy, technology and what to watch

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What's next4

All milestones

  1. 2026

    Launch Bay Area residential service

    Wing's plan starts in selected San Francisco neighborhoods and then expands to Oakland and San Jose. The Bay Area was included in the June 9, 2026 seven-city Walmart expansion announcement and remains listed as coming soon on Wing's Walmart waitlist as of September 20, 2026 - Wing has still not named a specific launch date. The launch is Wing's most ambitious dense-metro test, in airspace shared with SFO, OAK, and SJC, and doubles as a homecoming to the market where Project Wing began inside Google X in 2012.

    wing.com

  2. 2026-2027

    Execute the coast-to-coast Walmart rollout

    The next major scaling milestone is turning the announced Walmart markets into live operations. As of September 20, 2026 Wing's Walmart waitlist lists five live metros (Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando) and twelve coming soon. Progress continues incrementally: on July 8, 2026, Wing and Walmart added drone delivery at eight more Greater Houston-area Walmart stores (13 locations total), and on July 29, 2026 Wing opened its first Florida market in Greater Orlando from two of five planned Walmart Supercenters. Ocoee, a second Clermont store, and Haines City were still not announced as live. The June 9, 2026 seven-city wave (Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the SF Bay Area, and Salt Lake City) remains entirely unlaunched. Greater St. Louis is in hearings: Kirkwood's planning commission gave a preliminary go-ahead for an 18-drone Walmart nest, with a City Council public hearing still ahead and no launch date. Full buildout is targeted by 2027, on the way to more than 270 drone-delivery locations and ~40M Americans within reach.

    wing.com

  3. 2026

    Kirkwood City Council drone-nest hearing and FAA Part 108 OIRA decision

    TargetKirkwood City Council continues the Walmart nest permit on October 14, 2026; FAA Part 108 (RIN 2120-AL82) still Pending Review at OIRA as of October 6, nominal clock October 8, 2026

    firstalert4.com

  4. Late 2026 to 2027

    Broaden extended-hours operations and prepare for FAA Part 108

    With after-dark waivers in hand at select sites, Wing is widening service windows in more markets while it waits on FAA Part 108 - the standardized BVLOS regime (NPRM published August 2025) that would replace the case-by-case waivers Wing has had to negotiate one metro at a time. The rule has slipped repeatedly: the FAA blew past the February 1, 2026 deadline set by a June 2025 executive order. As of September 12, 2026 the final rule (RIN 2120-AL82) remained pending at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, received July 10 (day 64 of a nominal 90-day review that runs to October 8, extendable to November 7). At Commercial UAV Expo, FAA acting Emerging Technologies Division manager Robert Reckert said the agency hopes to see the rule published by the end of the calendar year - a hope, not a date. TSA is recruiting operators for closed security roundtables after the rule lands, with requests due October 19.

    droneauthority.org

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Latest news5

All news

  1. Wing and Walmart add Denver and Seattle for 2027

    On October 5, 2026, Alphabet's Wing and Walmart said they will bring drone delivery to the Denver and Seattle metros in 2027, taking the partnership toward nearly 20 U.S. metros. They said the buildout continues toward more than 270 Walmart locations and more than 40 million customers. Wing's waitlist still lists five live metros (Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Orlando), with Denver and Seattle marked coming soon rather than flying.

    wing.com wing.com www.engadget.com

  2. Wing starts Lowe's drone deliveries from a Charlotte-area store

    Lowe's said on September 24 that a drone-delivery pilot is live at its Matthews, North Carolina store, with orders placed in the DoorDash app and flown by Alphabet's Wing in as fast as 20 minutes. CNBC said more than 100 SKUs are eligible, drones carry about 2.5 pounds, and the service covers about 5 miles from the store, with possible expansion if the test works. Lowe's and DoorDash are untracked; Wing already flies DoorDash in the Charlotte area.

    www.finanznachrichten.de www.cnbc.com

  3. FAA clears Wing to expand Atlanta and Houston drone nests

    The FAA completed final environmental reviews clearing Wing to operate up to 118 drone delivery nests across its Atlanta and Houston markets, with the Houston plan alone covering as many as 75 nests, each housing up to 24 aircraft and serving a 6-mile delivery radius. The approval lets Wing keep building out the Walmart-anchored network in two of its most established US metros as it works toward a target of more than 270 delivery locations reaching about 40 million Americans by 2027.

    AVweb FAA

  4. Wing and Walmart launch drone delivery in Orlando, Florida

    Wing and Walmart began drone delivery service across Greater Orlando on July 29, operating from two Walmart Supercenters in Apopka and Clermont with orders arriving in 30 minutes or less. It is Wing's first Florida market and the state's first active drone-delivery service since rival operator DroneUp exited Florida in 2024, with Walmart planning to add three more Orlando-area stores in Ocoee, Clermont, and Haines City in the coming weeks.

    DroneXL Click Orlando

  5. Wing and Walmart launch drone delivery in 7 new US metro areas

    Alphabet's Wing and Walmart on June 9 announced what they called the world's largest-ever drone delivery expansion, adding Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City - seven metro areas at once - bringing the partnership to nearly 20 U.S. markets. The expansion is part of Wing and Walmart's plan to put drone delivery within reach of roughly 40 million Americans by 2027, and follows the partnership's milestone of surpassing 1 million total U.S. drone deliveries in May 2026.

    Wing Robotics & Automation News

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Products2

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Key metrics

Employees
Not publicly disclosed
Est. annual revenue
Not separately disclosed

(part of Alphabet Other Bets, which generated $382M in revenue in Q2 2026 - up from $373M a year earlier - with a $1.799B operating loss, up from $1.246B a year earlier). Q3 2026 results had not been published as of September 20, 2026.

Residential Deliveries
Well over 1,000,000 lifetime

thousands of home deliveries per day as of Sept 3, 2026

Service Area
5 live U.S

Walmart metros as of Sept 20, 2026 (DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando) plus 12 coming-soon markets including the June 9 seven-city wave, St. Louis, Tampa, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Miami; Greater St. Louis in active permitting with a Kirkwood nest still awaiting City Council

FAA Air Carrier Certificate

First-ever Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate granted to a drone-delivery company (2019); with DoorDash's July 29, 2026 certification, Wing is now one of eight companies holding a Part 135 air carrier certificate for drone operations in the US. Unchanged as of Sept 10, 2026.

Planned Walmart Footprint
270+ locations / ~40M Americans by 2027

nearly 20 markets announced; Wing's Walmart waitlist still lists 12 coming-soon metros as of Sept 20, 2026, including all seven from the June 9 wave

Average Delivery Time (DFW)
<19 minutes order-to-door

(fulfillment); average flight time alone is about 3 minutes 27 seconds; Wing's homepage lists a fastest delivery of 2 min 47 secs

Walmart Program Milestone
1M total Walmart drone deliveries

(Wing + Zipline) as of May 29, 2026, across 66 stores in 4 states; no newer aggregate total published as of Sept 20, 2026 (next Walmart earnings in November is the likely update)

Service Area
5 live U.S

Walmart metros as of Sept 26, 2026 (DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando) plus 12 coming-soon markets including the June 9 seven-city wave, St. Louis, Tampa, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Miami. First home-improvement retailer pilot live at Lowe's Matthews, N.C., via DoorDash.

Service Area
5 live U.S

Walmart metros as of Sept 30, 2026 (DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando) plus 12 coming-soon markets including the June 9 seven-city wave, St. Louis, Tampa, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Miami. San Francisco Bay Area still listed coming soon with no city or date.

Service Area
5 live U.S

Walmart metros as of Oct 6, 2026 (DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando) plus 14 coming-soon markets after Oct 5 added Denver and Seattle for 2027, including the June 9 seven-city wave, St. Louis, Tampa, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Miami. San Francisco Bay Area still listed coming soon with no city or date.

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Operations & revenue

Operating status

Active

Active and scaling. As of October 6, 2026 Wing's Walmart waitlist still lists five live U.S. metros (Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, and Orlando) and 14 coming-soon markets after Denver and Seattle were named October 5 for 2027, with no named Bay Area residential launch date. Kirkwood City Council held the Walmart 18-drone nest public hearing on October 1 and continues the item on October 14. FAA Part 108 (RIN 2120-AL82) remains Pending Review at OIRA, received July 10; the nominal 90-day clock still runs to October 8 and had not expired. Wing's newsroom still has no Lowe's post; latest official items are October 5 new metros and September 4 technical leadership. Pickup Station remains imageless (availableMedia has only the delivery drone). CEO remains Adam Woodworth. NextSteps without expectedHash cannot be re-dated here.

Revenue streams

  • Consumer Drone Delivery

    Residential delivery for groceries, meals, health products, and household essentials, sold directly through Wing and partner storefronts such as Walmart, DoorDash, and (via a 2026 Charlotte-area pilot) Papa John's.

  • Wing Delivery Platform (B2B)

    Wing sells a merchant-facing platform that plugs into existing order flows through pickup stations and APIs, letting businesses add drone delivery without major construction or operational overhauls.

  • Healthcare Logistics

    Wing is extending its network into medical logistics, moving lab samples and other time-sensitive healthcare items through hospital and pharmacy partnerships.

  • Nest Site Leasing

    Wing leases unused parking-lot or grass-pad space from property owners and shopping centers, turning it into a delivery nest that also serves nearby merchants. The company cites The Arboretum Shopping Center in Charlotte, where it delivers for about 20 merchants from a previously unused parking-lot pad, as the model it is pitching to landlords.

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Track record

How past announced dates turned out.

0/1announced date hit on time

  • 0 Hit
  • 1 Slipped
  • 0 Missed
  1. Slipped

    Kirkwood City Council drone-nest hearing and FAA Part 108 OIRA decision

    Target Kirkwood hearing undated; Part 108 OIRA clock October 8, 2026 · Resolved Oct 1, 2026

    The previously undated Kirkwood public hearing was held October 1, 2026. Council did not vote that night and set further consideration for October 14. Part 108 remains pending; October 6 is before the October 8 OIRA clock, so the review has not concluded.

    Original targetOutcome

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Timeline23

  1. 2026

    1. Names Denver and Seattle as 2027 Walmart drone-delivery metros

      On October 5, 2026 Wing and Walmart said they will bring drone delivery to the Denver and Seattle metros in 2027, taking the partnership to nearly 20 U.S. metros and continuing toward more than 270 Walmart locations. The waitlist still shows five live metros. San Francisco Bay Area remains coming soon with no date. Federal Way's mayor was quoted on the Seattle-area plan.

    2. Kirkwood City Council holds public hearing on Walmart 18-drone nest

      On October 1, 2026 Kirkwood City Council heard from Walmart and Wing on a special-use request for an 18-drone nest on about 30 southwest parking spaces at the Kirkwood Walmart Supercenter, with deliveries of about 2.5 to 2.75 lb within six miles. Residents cited noise. Council did not vote that night and set further consideration for October 14, 2026. No launch date was given.

    3. Belvedere gives first reading to a drone-delivery ordinance

      Belvedere voted 3-2 on September 14, 2026 to give first-reading approval to Marin County's first ordinance on commercial drone delivery. DroneXL reported no delivery had reached a Belvedere doorstep, that Wing still had not named a Bay Area city or date, and that a second reading is set for October 12. Wing's newsroom as of September 26 still lists no Bay Area launch.

    4. Starts Lowe's drone deliveries from Matthews, North Carolina

      Lowe's opened a live drone-delivery pilot at its Matthews, North Carolina store, with orders through DoorDash and flights by Wing. Deliveries are as fast as 20 minutes, about 2.5 pounds per flight, and about 5 miles from the store according to CNBC.

    5. Appoints two C-suite engineering leaders to industrialize the fleet

      On September 4, 2026 CEO Adam Woodworth appointed Brandon Jones, a decade-long Wing veteran and former U.S. Navy aerospace engineer on the X-47B carrier-landing team, as Chief Autonomous Systems and Applications Officer, overseeing autonomy, flight software, simulation, UTM, and digital platforms. Paul Gojenola, who joined earlier in 2026 after a decade as a Google VP of Hardware (Nest, Home, Fitbit, Pixel Tablets), became Chief Hardware Development and Manufacturing Operations Officer, leading aircraft hardware and manufacturing from the Bay Area lab. Wing framed the hires as preparation to reach 40 million Americans and expand internationally in 2027.

    6. Kirkwood Walmart nest enters St. Louis County permitting

      On September 7, 2026 the Webster-Kirkwood Times reported that Wing and Walmart are seeking a special-use permit for an 18-drone nest on about 30 parking spaces at the Kirkwood Walmart Supercenter north of Interstate 44, after an August 19 Planning and Zoning hearing. Wing representative Catherine Lovett said the drones carry up to 2.5 lb, fly about 55 mph at around 200 feet, are not equipped with cameras, and are remotely overseen by trained pilots. Subsequent St. Louis Post-Dispatch coverage said the commission gave a preliminary go-ahead and that City Council will hold a public hearing; no launch date was given as of September 20, 2026.

    7. Says it is making thousands of home deliveries a day

      On September 3, 2026 Wing said on X that it is making thousands of deliveries to homes each day and building the largest residential drone-delivery network in the United States. DroneXL noted the post named no new store or date, and that Greater Orlando was still flying from only the two July 29 Walmart Supercenters in Apopka and Clermont, with Ocoee, a second Clermont store, and Haines City still not announced as live.

    8. Begins site selection for a new Greater St. Louis market

      By early-to-mid August 2026 Wing and Walmart are finalizing initial delivery-hub sites across the Greater St. Louis area - including Manchester, Maplewood, Kirkwood, St. Charles, and Glen Carbon - kicking off local permitting and zoning presentations for a market not previously announced in the June 9, 2026 seven-city wave. Some residents have raised drone-noise concerns at local zoning meetings; independent FAA noise testing has measured Wing's aircraft at about 84 decibels at 50 feet during delivery, compared with 79 dB for Zipline and 88 dB for Amazon's Prime Air.

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Funding

  1. Alphabet Internal Funding

    2012–present

    Undisclosed (Alphabet subsidiary)

    Alphabet Inc. (parent company)

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