WHAT HAPPENED
Amazon wants to fly up to 1,000 MK30 delivery flights a day out of its North Haven, Connecticut warehouse, roughly 365,000 a year, to addresses within 7. The state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection published a notice on September 16 that the Federal Aviation Administration wants its concurrence on the plan, and opened a 15-day comment window on the same day. The New Haven Register reported the notice on Thursday and the Hartford Courant followed with the FAA document on Saturday. It is the first federal paperwork DroneXL has seen for any Prime Air hub in the Northeast, and the first comment window DroneXL has seen open on one. One thousand flights a day, 365,000 a year, 174 square miles: Amazon writes the same ceiling into every MK30 filing it makes, from Chicago to Baton Rouge to Florida.
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