Freefly Systems
Astro Max
Can the Freefly Systems Astro Max be imported and sold in the United States?
Lawful to import and sell
Carries a Blue UAS listing, 29 May 2024. Cleared and Select are two separate lists, so read the platform note, which either names the list or says plainly that we have not confirmed which one it is. Do not treat the two as interchangeable. US produced, so the foreign-UAS Covered List entry does not reach it at all and there is no expiry on its market status. Importable and restockable today.
The record
- Board verdict
- Blue UAS listed
- Origin
- United States, Woodinville WA
- Class
- Drone
- Availability and tier
- Enterprise tier
- Blue UAS listing
- 29 May 2024
The status is reported in public sources we consider reliable, but we have not yet loaded the underlying record. We do so before any quote.
Reported as Blue UAS Select. A re-check on 16 September 2026 could not reach the DCMA list to confirm which list it is on, and one aggregator shows it as Cleared, so ask for the listing itself before you rely on either word. Freefly publishes an actual price list and runs a reseller intake, which is rare in this segment.
Who can buy it, and with what money
Two different gates. Whether a platform may be sold at all is set by FCC authorization and binds everyone. Whether a particular buyer may spend a particular kind of money on it is set by procurement law and binds public money only. The same machine can pass one and fail the other.
Carries a Blue UAS listing, 29 May 2024. Cleared and Select are two separate lists, so read the platform note, which either names the list or says plainly that we have not confirmed which one it is. Do not treat the two as interchangeable. US produced, so the foreign-UAS Covered List entry does not reach it at all and there is no expiry on its market status. Importable and restockable today.
Carries a Blue UAS listing, 29 May 2024. Cleared and Select are two separate lists, so read the platform note, which either names the list or says plainly that we have not confirmed which one it is. Do not treat the two as interchangeable. US produced, so the foreign-UAS Covered List entry does not reach it at all and there is no expiry on its market status. Importable and restockable today.
Carries a Blue UAS listing, 29 May 2024. Cleared and Select are two separate lists, so read the platform note, which either names the list or says plainly that we have not confirmed which one it is. Do not treat the two as interchangeable. US produced, so the foreign-UAS Covered List entry does not reach it at all and there is no expiry on its market status. Importable and restockable today.
Carries a Blue UAS listing, 29 May 2024. Cleared and Select are two separate lists, so read the platform note, which either names the list or says plainly that we have not confirmed which one it is. Do not treat the two as interchangeable. US produced, so the foreign-UAS Covered List entry does not reach it at all and there is no expiry on its market status. Importable and restockable today.
Drones sit under a different and earlier action. On 22 December 2025 the FCC added all foreign-produced uncrewed aircraft systems and their critical components to the Covered List, with no weight gate. Aircraft authorized before that date keep that authorization, and the FCC has said the update does not prohibit the import, sale or use of models it previously authorized, so newly built units of those models may still be imported and sold. What cannot happen is a new authorization for a foreign-produced model. A US-produced aircraft sits outside that entry entirely, so no expiry runs against it. Foreign-produced aircraft rely instead on the Blue UAS exception, which runs to 1 January 2028. Blue UAS Cleared and Blue UAS Select are two different lists and we name which one an aircraft is on. Which aircraft a public buyer may put budget against is a separate question again, set by the American Security Drone Act for federal buyers and by state statute for a growing number of state and local ones, so confirm the rule that binds your own money before you commit it.
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