High Eye
About
About High Eye
High Eye designs and manufactures the Airboxer long-range unmanned helicopter for defence, maritime and critical-service missions. The aviation-grade VTOL platform offers more than four hours of endurance, payload capacity up to 7 kg, IP67-protected avionics and modular mission integration. Airboxer entered the market in 2018 and is in series production.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía
Inbound - Compute & Control - High Eye contracted UAV Navigation VECTOR-600 autopilots for its Airboxer helicopter
Source
Team
- Joost de Ruiter - Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Leads Airboxer development, production growth and defence and government partnerships.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-12-15 - Regulatory - High Eye receives LUC SAIL II operator certification
High Eye says its privileges permit self-declared BVLOS missions in Europe within the certificate’s scope. The operator can conduct SORA 2.5 risk assessments and maintain mitigations for Specific Category UAS operations. Preparation began in 2023 and included safety-management procedures, team training and work with Malta CAD.
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Context
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Context tags
- Public-safety drone builder - Peer Group - https://www.higheye.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Tactical reconnaissance UAV builder - Peer Group - https://www.higheye.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Unmanned helicopter builder - Peer Group - https://www.higheye.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.