DoorDash Drone
A DoorDash drone is seen in flight. Wing Aviation

A drone company is partnering with DoorDash to bring delivery services to customer's homes from local mall in Texas.

The partnership marks a first-of-its-kind deal with Wing Aviation LLC, a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and Brookfield Properties for shoppers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

"We are proud to be the first landlord to provide drone delivery as another avenue to help our tenants serve our communities," said Katie Kurtz, senior vice president of business development at Brookfield Properties. "We're committed to meeting the changing needs of the ways people shop."

After customers place their order in the DoorDash app, an option to deliver their items by drone from more than 50 merchants will appear on the checkout screen.

Wing Aviation, whose drones have a cruising height of nearly 150 feet, said it can deliver items and meals to doorsteps in less than 15 minutes.

Wing Aviation partnered with Serve Robotics Inc., which supplies the company with mobile robots. A Serve robot will pick up orders and deliver them to a Wing Aviation drone a few blocks away.

Wing has been operating in the U.S. for the past 5 years, and has completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries worldwide.

Wing Aviation has tested similar beyond-visual line-of-sight flights (BVLOS) using delivery drones in Australia and Ireland.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed Wing to make BVLOS flights over Dallas.

The FAA also gave Amazon approval for operating its new delivery drone, MK30.

The DoorDash drone delivery service will officially launch at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco and Hulen Mall in Fort Worth.

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