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Wing

SSubsidiary (Alphabet Inc.)Founded 2012🇺🇸Palo Alto, California
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CEO

Adam Woodworth

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Alphabet Inc.

Data verified as of Jul 21, 2026

Summary

Wing is a drone-delivery company launched from Google's X in 2012 that is scaling small-package logistics in dense residential areas. It has completed more than 750,000 residential deliveries and built a service area covering more than 2 million customers across major U.S. metros including Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Houston (live since January 15, 2026), with volume tripling in the six months before its January 2026 Walmart announcement. Wing's coast-to-coast Walmart partnership — co-credited with Zipline for Walmart crossing 1 million total drone deliveries on May 29, 2026 — is heading for 270+ store locations by 2027, while Wing prepares a Bay Area residential launch in 2026 in the metro where the company was founded.

Company OverviewRead the long-form profile of Wing

Main Products

Wing Delivery Drone

Wing Delivery Drone

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Wing's autonomous delivery aircraft is designed for short-haul local logistics: it picks up packages from merchant stations, cruises above streets and obstacles, then lowers the order on a tether into a small delivery zone. The system is highly automated, with pilots overseeing multiple flights from remote operations centers rather than manually flying each aircraft. Wing now operates a fleet of differently sized drones: a standard aircraft carries ~2.5 lb (a single drone fulfills roughly 70% of U.S. orders) and a larger aircraft introduced in 2024 doubles payload to ~5 lb to consolidate bigger orders into a single flight.

Commercially active across multiple U.S. cities. Wing's residential network is anchored by its core aircraft plus a larger 5 lb-payload drone for bigger orders, both scaling through the Walmart partnership across nearly 20 U.S. markets.

Delivery MethodTether lowering from hover
Payload Capacity~2.5 lb (standard); up to ~5 lb (larger aircraft)
Round-Trip RangeUp to 12 miles
Cruise SpeedUp to 65 mph

Wing Pickup Station & API

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Wing's merchant-side stack combines lightweight pickup hardware with software integrations so retailers, restaurants, and healthcare providers can add drone delivery inside their existing ordering workflows.

Actively used by retail, restaurant, and healthcare partners as Wing scales market launches without requiring heavy site buildouts.

App IntegrationWing API
Site SetupNo major construction or overhauls
Fulfillment FlowStaff hook package onto pickup station

What's Next

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 not yet live as of mid-July 2026 — Wing describes the new markets as scaling 'in the coming months' toward operations by 2027. The launch is Wing's most ambitious dense-metro test, in airspace shared with SFO, OAK, and SJC.

2026

Execute the coast-to-coast Walmart rollout

The next major scaling milestone is turning the announced Walmart markets into live operations. The June 9, 2026 seven-city wave (Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the SF Bay Area, and Salt Lake City) took the partnership to nearly 20 U.S. markets — as of mid-July 2026 these remain announced, not yet live, with operations targeted by 2027 behind already-live DFW, Atlanta and Greater Houston, on the way to more than 270 drone-delivery locations and ~40M Americans within reach.

2026-2027

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, ~3,000+ comments closed October 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 and a subsequent mid-March 2026 target, and as of early July 2026 the final rule remains unpublished, hung up largely on the contested question of which aircraft yields when a drone and a crewed plane share low-altitude airspace.

2026

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Operations & Revenue

StatusActive

Active and scaling. Wing operates in Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte, Greater Houston (live since January 15, 2026), and internationally in Australia and Europe, with delivery volume tripling in the six months before the January 2026 Walmart announcement. The Walmart partnership co-credited with Zipline for crossing 1M total Walmart drone deliveries on May 29, 2026 expanded again on June 9, 2026, when Wing and Walmart added seven metros (Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City) in what they call the world's largest-ever drone-delivery rollout — bringing the partnership to nearly 20 U.S. markets on the way to 270+ store locations and ~40M Americans by 2027. Wing's Bay Area residential launch — a homecoming to the metro where the company began inside Google X in 2012 — remains ahead as of late July 2026, expected to begin in the coming months.

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 and DoorDash.

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.

Key Metrics

Employees

Not publicly disclosed

Est. Annual Revenue

Not separately disclosed (part of Alphabet Other Bets, which generated $411M in revenue in Q1 2026 — down from $450M a year earlier — with a $2.1B operating loss)

Residential Deliveries

750,000+

Service Area

2M+ customers live across DFW, Atlanta, Charlotte & Houston; Walmart partnership expanding toward ~20 U.S. markets

FAA Air Carrier Certificate

First drone company (2019)

Planned Walmart Footprint

270+ locations / ~40M Americans by 2027 (nearly 20 markets announced)

Average Delivery Time (DFW)

<19 minutes

Walmart Program Milestone

1M total Walmart drone deliveries (Wing + Zipline), May 29, 2026

Timeline

2026Pushes coast-to-coast rollout into new metros

Wing kicks off 2026 with a January 11 Walmart announcement adding 150 stores coast to coast and a January 15 Houston launch from five Walmart Supercenters. The combined plan targets more than 270 drone-delivery locations and ~40 million Americans (≈12% of the U.S. population) by 2027.

2026Bay Area homecoming announced

On March 23, 2026 Wing announces it will bring residential drone delivery to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months — starting in selected San Francisco neighborhoods, then Oakland and San Jose — a return to the metro where the company began as Project Wing inside Google X in 2012.

2026Walmart crosses 1M drone deliveries with Wing and Zipline

Walmart marks 1 million U.S. drone deliveries on May 29, 2026, with 40% of that million coming in Walmart's fiscal Q1 of FY27. The retailer now runs drone delivery from 66 stores across 4 states and 5 metros using parallel partnerships with Wing and Zipline, with Texas alone accounting for over 200,000 of the deliveries and a 23-minute average order-to-door time.

2026Seven-city expansion announced — world's largest-ever drone delivery rollout

On June 9, 2026, Wing and Walmart announce what they describe as 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 in a single wave — bringing the partnership to nearly 20 U.S. markets and tracking toward 270+ delivery locations and roughly 40 million Americans within reach by 2027.

2025Begins largest-ever U.S. retail expansion

Wing and Walmart kick off the largest drone-delivery expansion yet in the U.S., taking service to 100 Walmart stores across six major cities and pushing drone delivery closer to mainstream local fulfillment.

2024Expands network and starts London healthcare flights

Wing deepens its Walmart and DoorDash partnerships, advances its detect-and-avoid system, and begins flying NHS blood samples across central London with Apian and Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals.

2022Launches in Dallas-Fort Worth and scales Australia

Wing brings drone delivery to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the first major U.S. metro to get the service, while its Logan operation in Australia scales past 1,000 deliveries per day.

2019First-ever FAA Air Carrier Certificate for drones

Wing earns the first Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate granted by the FAA to a drone-delivery company, clearing the way for commercial home delivery in the U.S.

2018Graduates to standalone Alphabet subsidiary

After incubation inside Google, Wing becomes an independent Alphabet business as it shifts from research project to commercial deployment.

2012Founded as Project Wing within Google X

Wing starts in Google's labs with the goal of building a faster, more convenient delivery option that can take cars off the road and reduce environmental impact.

Funding

RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Alphabet Internal Funding2012–presentUndisclosed (Alphabet subsidiary)Alphabet Inc. (parent company)