Manna Air Delivery has put a number on its new Tulsa drone bases: up to 24 deliveries an hour each. The figure is in a release Manna posted on October 13 and sent over Business Wire on October 14, covering the three bases it is adding to its first US site on Cherry Street. Two of them, at The Shops at Alameda and Plaza Santa Cecilia, began flying the week of October 6, and Manna’s Tulsa page lists the third, Garnett Plaza, as opening soon.
The same release commits Manna to more than 1,000 American manufacturing jobs over three years, says its first batch of “made in America” aircraft is in production, and counts almost 400,000 commercial delivery flights in seven years. On October 19, the Tulsa Flyer asked Cherry Street restaurants how many drone orders they get. The owner of Andolini’s Pizzeria said 10 to 20 on a good day and three on others.
Manna’s 24 an Hour Is 768 Deliveries a Week on Tulsa’s Launch Hours
Twenty-four deliveries an hour across the launch schedule FOX23 reported, noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, is 192 a day and 768 a week per base. On the full schedule Manna has promised, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, the same rate reaches 2,016.
The rate matches the arithmetic DroneXL ran on October 6, when CEO Bobby Healy told FOX23 each east Tulsa base could complete thousands of deliveries a week: three aircraft at the eight sorties an hour Healy has quoted since 2025 is 24. Manna’s release is the first time the company has published the per-base number itself. It is a ceiling: the aircraft sit out heavy rain and winds above 20 knots (23 mph, 37 km/h), Manna told KJRH in September, and the release does not say when the full schedule starts. News On 6 listed five launch days rather than four, which lifts the week to 960.
Cherry Street Restaurants Count 3 to 20 Drone Orders a Day
Andolini’s owner Mike Bausch told the Tulsa Flyer that drone orders run “10 to 20 a day, then other days it’s like three.” Some days Manna does not fly. Parea Coffee’s Mason Galle counts zero to three on a slow day and seven to 10 on a fast one…