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Wing delivery drones

Highly automated delivery drones that fly Walmart orders from the store, hover over the customer's address and lower the package on a tether.

by Wing · last checked Oct 17, 2026

A Wing delivery drone in flight over a waterside park in Vuosaari, Helsinki, lowering a package on a tether, August 2021.
Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons · resized to 960 px wide

What has been shown

Delivering Walmart orders in Dallas–Fort Worth since 2024, and in Houston, Atlanta, Orlando and Charlotte by October 2026.

Evidence support Company-reported · Customer-confirmed · Independently verified

Ongoing operation Walmart said in June 2025 that Wing would deliver from 100 more Walmart stores across Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa, on top of Dallas–Fort Worth; the City of Fort Worth reports Wing deliveries from two Fort Worth Walmart stores since June 2024; and Wing said in October 2026 that its fleet makes thousands of residential deliveries a day. Walmart, City of Fort Worth, Wing

As of Oct 17, 2026 · Walmart (named customer), Wing (company source), City of Fort Worth (independent reporting)

Can you get it?

Paid service available

Walmart customers at eligible addresses see drone delivery as an option in the Walmart app or on Walmart.com, or order in the Wing app; others can join a waitlist.

United States · As of Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source), Wing and Walmart add new metros to the nation's largest drone delivery network (company source), Greater Houston kicks off Walmart and Wing's biggest expansion year yet (company source)

Is it still alive?

Active
    As of Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source)

    Wing delivers Walmart orders by drone in Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Orlando and Charlotte; customers order through Walmart or the Wing app. No delivery fee was found in the sources checked.

    What the evidence says

    1. Company claim

      Wing says its highly automated drones fly at about 150 feet and up to about 60 mph, then hover over the address and lower the package on a tether to a spot about the size of a picnic blanket.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source)
    2. Company claim

      Wing gives two payload limits: up to about 2.5 pounds (January 2026) and up to five pounds across its two aircraft types (October 2026). Wing doesn't publish names for the aircraft.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source), Wing and Walmart add new metros to the nation's largest drone delivery network (company source)
    3. Documented by company source

      Wing and Walmart began drone delivery in the Houston area on January 15, 2026, from five Walmart Supercenters in Crosby, Katy (two stores), Houston and Kemah.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source)
    4. Company claim

      Wing says its fleet makes thousands of residential deliveries a day and that more than three million customers can get drone delivery. It plans to serve more than 270 Walmart stores, with Denver and Seattle in 2027.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source)
    5. Regulator-documented

      The FAA lists Wing Aviation as an air carrier certificated to deliver packages by drone under Part 135, first as a single-pilot operator in April 2019 and as a standard operator from October 2019.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Federal Aviation Administration (regulator)
    6. Independently verified

      A Wing drone returning to the Kemah, Texas, Walmart crashed and caught fire on March 1, 2026; no one was hurt. Wing said it was cooperating with federal authorities and the store said deliveries would continue.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · The Galveston County Daily News (independent reporting)
    7. Documented by company source

      The sources checked don't describe what remote staff do while Wing's drones fly. Human involvement is left blank because none of the Index's options can be confirmed from them.

      Observed Oct 17, 2026 · Wing (company source), Greater Houston kicks off Walmart and Wing's biggest expansion year yet (company source)

    Price

    Unknown: no price in the cited sources.

    What we don't know yet

    • No public price.
    • Whether people assist it remotely is not disclosed.

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