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MLDR Updates Event Pages, Unveils 2026 Grand Prix Schedule Including Glendale

MLDR refreshed its public event pages to promote a 2026 Grand Prix Season and, in a supplied update, a Grand Prix at Glendale Regional Airport is listed in a truncated advert string while Goodyear Ballpark is confirmed as a benefit stop.

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MLDR Updates Event Pages, Unveils 2026 Grand Prix Schedule Including Glendale
Source: glendaleaeroservices.com

Major League Drone Racing refreshed its public event pages this week to push a 2026 Grand Prix Season that mixes community benefit nights with larger branded stops, and a supplied update specifically names Glendale Regional Airport in Arizona as a marquee stop in what the update calls a “nascent national schedule.” The supplied text reads in full: "Major League Drone Racing (MLDR) updated its public event pages this week to promote the 2026 Grand Prix Season and list marquee stops in its nascent national schedule, including a high‑profile Grand Prix event at Glendale Regional Airport in Arizona (advertised as MLDR Grand Prix, Circuit Race 3 a".

The MLDR site snapshot captured multiple pages that are explicitly live on the league’s navigation, including a Schedule section with a 2026 Grand Prix Season and All Races & Shows, an Our Teams roster listing Arizona Desert Hawks, Phoenix Falcons, Houston Eagles, Dallas Ravens, Las Vegas Hornets, San Francisco Condors, Los Angeles Sea Dragons, Colorado Thunderbirds, Florida Raptors, Seattle Sasquatch and 1st Responder Teams, plus a Shop and Learn menu with Tutorial Videos and Open Class Race Registration. The site contact and legal details appear as info@themldr.com, Main: 623.263.4048, and © 2025 by Major League Drone Racing, LLC.

One confirmed event page on the MLDR snapshot is Major League Drone Racing Grand Prix At Goodyear Ballpark, framed as “MLDR Presents: DroneRace for a Cause, Benefiting Sounds of Autism.” That page identifies the location as Goodyear Ballpark, Goodyear, Arizona, and promotes family activities including a car show, while repeating the beneficiary messaging. The site also promotes a local matchup billed as “AZ Desert Hawks VS PHX Falcons Live at the Peoria Sports Complex,” with a ticket info line present but no date or URL in the captured text.

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Third-party listings carried MLDR-branded events across late 2025 and January 2026. Fpvtrackside entries list “Major League Drone Racing - Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2026” on 23rd January 2026 and “MLDR(2) World Championship” on 24th January 2026, while an “MLDR Open Class World Championship” entry appears for 12th December 2025. An Eventbrite snippet in the materials shows a typical event block of 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM and notes “6-10 High Speed drone racing heats,” though that snippet is not tied to a specific MLDR page in the captured files.

MLDR’s public-facing language positions the league as developing into a 32-team professional circuit split evenly between a Western Drone Racing Conference and an Eastern Drone Racing Conference, and the site highlights sponsors and partners including HDZERO DRONE PAD MEDIA and multimedia assets such as a 00:33 video titled “Get to know your Arizona Desert Hawks.” The Glendale Regional Airport listing appears only in the supplied update and the advert string ends with the truncated text "MLDR Grand Prix, Circuit Race 3 a"; that Glendale reference does not appear in the captured MLDR page fragments, leaving the airport stop reported but not visible on the saved site snapshot.

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