{"id":767986,"date":"2026-09-12T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767986\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:22:14","slug":"amazon-seeks-to-expand-darlington-drone-delivery-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767986\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon seeks to expand Darlington drone delivery area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Retail giant Amazon has put an application in to expand its drone delivery service to cover an entire town where it has been trialling the tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US company announced last January that Darlington would be its test centre in the UK, marking the first time Prime Air had operated outside the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It started a &#8220;limited&#8221; number of flights in Febraury, allowing customers within a 7.5 mile radius of its County Durham site to have certain items delivered by drone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After more than 500 flights and deliveries, the firm said it is now seeking approval from the Civil Aviation Authority to cover the whole of Darlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vice president of Prime Air David Carbon said Amazon was expecting to get permission &#8220;very soon&#8221;, with the ultimate aim of expanding the service to the whole of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eligible customers in Darlington are currently able to receive their items within two hours, as long as they have a garden, yard, or driveway, the  package weighs less than 5lb and it can fit inside a large shoebox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at the site said their best delivery time so far is 39 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail giant Amazon has put an application in to expand its drone delivery service to cover an entire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}