The size of the commercial drone fleet should jump more than tenfold over the next five years, to about 442,000, and could go much higher, the Federal Aviation Administration says.
FAA’s latest annual Aerospace Forecast report, released on March 21, for the first time covers drones, or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). It says that there is an “upside possibility” that the number of commercial drones could rise to 1.6 million by 2021.