Manna opens two new drone delivery bases in east Tulsa

TLDR

• Manna Air Delivery is launching two new drone delivery bases in east Tulsa this week, at The Shops at Alameda and behind Plaza Santa Cecilia, with a third near 31st Street and Garnett Road due in the coming weeks.¹²
• The expansion comes less than eight weeks after Manna opened its first full-scale U.S. base on Cherry Street on August 12.¹²
• Residents within a two-mile radius of each base can order from launch partners Sr Lucas, Baga Sushi and Cakes & Churros through the Manna app, with each base running three aircraft.¹²
• Each base launches Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 8 p.m., with Manna planning to expand to seven days a week, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., as operations ramp up.²

Manna Air Delivery is adding two drone delivery bases in east Tulsa this week, one at The Shops at Alameda near 21st Street and Sheridan Road and one behind Plaza Santa Cecilia at 2160 S. Garnett Road, with a third base near 31st Street and Garnett Road expected in the coming weeks pending final logistics.¹² The company filed city permit applications for all three sites on August 25 and launched two of them roughly six weeks later.¹

Each base operates a secure, fenced area with three delivery aircraft and an enclosed structure, mirroring the layout of Manna's first full-scale U.S. base on Cherry Street, which opened August 12.¹² Residents within a two-mile radius of each new base can order restaurant meals, groceries and other everyday essentials through the Manna app from launch partners including Sr Lucas, Baga Sushi and Cakes & Churros, with more restaurant, grocery and retail partners expected to join in the coming months.¹² Manna CEO Bobby Healy said each base has "the capacity to complete thousands of deliveries each week."¹

The east Tulsa bases will initially run Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 8 p.m., with Manna planning to expand to seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. as the service ramps up.² Manna's head of operations has said the aircraft do not fly in heavy rain or winds above 20 knots.¹ The expansion follows a drone defibrillator pilot Manna ran with the Tulsa Fire Department two weeks earlier.¹

Why it matters: Tulsa is becoming one of the most closely watched test beds for whether drone delivery can scale past a single pilot site into a real metro-wide network, and Manna's six-week permit-to-launch timeline shows how fast a city can stand up new bases once the first one is proven out.

Note for Webmaster: 2 independent sources (DroneXL, The Journal Record), both covering the same east Tulsa base launches with consistent details; DroneXL's piece includes the reporter's own skeptical capacity-math analysis of Healy's "thousands a week" claim, which is their own editorializing rather than a disputed fact, so not carried into the body. Thumbnail: 2026-10-08-manna-east-tulsa.webp (from DroneXL's og:image), verified genuine WEBP.