Delair
About
About Delair
The UX11 is a hand-launched mapping aircraft designed for automated survey, while DT26 platforms provide longer endurance and larger payload capacity for surveillance, communications and defence missions. Delair integrates electro-optical, infrared, mapping and signals payloads around each aircraft's operating role.
The company also supplies ground stations, mission planning, data processing and operational support. Industrial users apply the systems to mining, utilities and geospatial work, while defence customers use tactical variants for ISR and beyond-visual-line-of-sight environments.
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Supply chain relationships
- Schaeffler AG
Inbound - Manufacturing - Schaeffler plans serial assembly and production support for Delair's Damocles and Aspik drones in France
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Team
- Bastien Mancini - CEO - Mancini leads Delair drone design and manufacturing for industrial, security, defense, mapping, and aerial-observation missions.
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Events
- 2026-06-19 - Partnership - Delair and Schaeffler partner to scale drone and interceptor production in France
The line is planned to manufacture Delair Damocles drones and the newly announced Aspik interceptor. The cooperation combines Schaeffler production and component capabilities with Delair drone design, integration and operational deployment. The companies frame the partnership around European sovereign UAS capacity and scalable defence drone manufacturing.
Source - 2024-09-23 - Partnership - Delair joins InDRa project to extend electric drone range
Delair joined the InDRa project to optimize electric drone energy consumption with AI and mathematics. The consortium included ADAGOS, the Toulouse Mathematics Institute, and Delair. The project targeted a 20 percent increase in electric drone flight time through energy-optimization methods.
Source - 2024-06-17 - Product Launch - Delair launches DRAKO universal UAV ground station
DRAKO provided a unified command-and-control interface using open standards including MAVLink and STANAG 4609. Delair said the system was already operational on a dozen UAVs across multicopter, aircraft, VTOL, and loitering munition classes.
Source - 2023-02-23 - Regulatory - Delair UX11 receives first EU C6 drone classification
The C6 designation enabled UX11 flights under EASA standard scenario STS-02. The classification strengthened UX11 use in long-distance surveying and industrial mapping missions. The C6 classification enabled operators to use the UX11 under the applicable European standard scenario for BVLOS work.
Source - 2020-06-19 - Regulatory - Delair receives EU BVLOS authorization for UX11
The approval supported long-range surveying and mapping flights with Delair UX11. The authorization created a regulated BVLOS pathway for professional drone operations in Europe. UX11 could operate under the approved European long-range survey framework without a separate mission-by-mission BVLOS exemption.
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