Fixed-wing isn't longer-range rotary. It is a different platform: efficient forward flight, hours-long endurance, mission autonomy that holds across the link drop, payloads that swap without re-engineering the airframe.
The D2400 is the first aircraft we are building around that thesis.
Industrial missions don't fit into a 6 km rotary radius. The math of long-range fixed-wing closes the gap between what the air can reach and what the ground actually needs.
The platform is the integration of four research tracks. Each one is its own engineering programme — together they put a long-endurance aircraft in the hands of an industrial operator.
Composite spar architecture engineered for a 4.5-hour cruise envelope at 22 m/s, with structural margin for industrial-grade abuse and field maintenance.
Redundant avionics stack and a custom flight-control board purpose-built for long-endurance industrial missions where the link breaks and the aircraft has to finish on its own.
A mission-planning stack that thinks in coverage geometry, not waypoints — operators describe the area, the aircraft solves the flight pattern, the wind, and the payload triggers.
Three independent bays with standard mechanical and electrical interfaces — the same airframe carries multispectral, thermal, LiDAR, methane sniffers, or partner payloads with no airframe-side rework.
Long endurance, operator-grade autonomy, and payload modularity — combined in one industrial aircraft, engineered to be flown by your team, not ours.
Efficient forward-flight aerodynamics turn the same battery budget into 4.5 hours of continuous coverage. One launch point reaches what otherwise takes a whole day of relocations.
Operators describe the area to be covered. The aircraft solves the flight geometry, accounts for wind, schedules payload triggers, and brings itself home — even if the link drops mid-mission.
Three bays. Standard interfaces. The same aircraft flies a multispectral survey today and a methane sniffer tomorrow — without re-engineering the airframe or retraining the operator.
Long-range coverage plus modular payload bays positions the aircraft across a wide range of industries. Where we have partners flying with us today, where we are looking next.
Industrial aerial autonomy is a multi-aircraft, multi-decade problem. The D-class airframe is the first deliverable on a roadmap that goes well past it.
320 km · 4.5 h · industrial fleet operations.
A second airframe in the same family, targeting 8 h continuous flight and 700 km range.
Coordinated flights — multiple D-class aircraft covering a corridor together, planned and supervised by one operator.
Beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations as the default for industrial customers in Canadian airspace.
We are building this aircraft with — and for — the operators who fly it. If your work runs into the limits of what the current generation of UAVs can do, we want to hear about it.