According to Commercial UAV News:

Autonomous logistics firm Dexa teamed up with local institution All The Best Delicatessen to pull off Ohio’s first commercial food drone delivery: a boxed lunch, pickle included, flown roughly 1.5 miles from the deli’s kitchen to a residential site and back in minutes, with local media and curious onlookers watching from the parking lot. For drivers craning their necks at stoplights, it was a brief novelty. But underneath the spectacle is something more consequential, one of the most heavily credentialed operations in American aviation finally doing something ordinary in public.

Dexa is one of only four U.S. companies, alongside Amazon, Google’s Wing, and Zipline, to hold an FAA airworthiness certification, a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate, and a national BVLOS waiver simultaneously. After testing in dense New Jersey airspace with Grubhub and Wonder earlier this year, it has brought that airline-grade capability home to Dayton. The pitch is what sets Dexa apart from the logistics giants. Their first client is a popular local deli instead of a national fulfillment center. It’s an appealing democratizing narrative, captured in deli owner Lee Schear’s line about old traditions and innovation working hand in hand.

Soaring to new heights, together.

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