The FCC exempted Manna Drones Delivery’s 383.2 drone from its Covered List on 23 October, after the Department of War granted it a conditional approval. It is the 20th drone or drone part approved this way since March, by FlightBrief’s count.
Manna is the Irish drone delivery company that put its total at almost 400,000 deliveries this month. The approval is in the name of Manna Drones Delivery, Inc. The FCC’s notice names the model only as the “383.2 Uncrewed Aircraft Systems”, and Manna has not described it in public. Its news page carried nothing on the approval on 27 October.
What the approval does
Since 22 December 2025 every drone and drone part made abroad has been on the Covered List, so it cannot get the FCC authorisation that new radio equipment needs. A conditional approval takes one named product off the list and nothing else the company makes.
It lasts as long as the holder keeps to the onshoring plan it filed and passes updated vetting, the notice says. It ends, and the product goes back on the list, if the company strays from the plan or the government finds false statements in the application. The plans themselves are not published.
The same notice cleared an Alpha Networks router, power inverters from Bloom Energy and Hitachi Energy, a Haystack Robotics device and T-Robotics’ automated guided vehicles.
Manna’s move to Tulsa
Manna paused all its Irish deliveries on 19 June, citing planning refusals by local councils. In July it named Tulsa, Oklahoma its US operations and manufacturing base, with more than 1,000 jobs planned over three years. TechCrunch reported then that its manufacturing was still in Ireland and that a Tulsa factory was under construction.
Its first Tulsa base opened on 12 August. On 13 October Manna said its first batch of “made in America” aircraft was in production, without saying where.
