Korean Air
About
About Korean Air
Korean Air’s Aerospace Business Division manufactures aircraft structures, performs depot-level maintenance and upgrades military aircraft alongside the group’s commercial airline operations. Its programmes include fixed-wing and rotary-wing support, aerostructure production for international manufacturers and the development of uncrewed aircraft for surveillance, logistics and specialised missions.
The division is also developing digital maintenance, autonomous inspection and advanced-air-mobility capabilities. Its aircraft-inspection drones use imaging and automated flight to examine exterior surfaces, while the ACROSS platform addresses fleet operation and traffic coordination for future air-mobility services. Korean Air therefore participates both as an aircraft operator and as an engineering, manufacturing and lifecycle-support contractor for aerospace and defence customers.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-16 - Demonstration - Korean Air demonstrates 22-drone autonomous swarm flight and strike
Two lead drones ran AI-based automatic target recognition for threat detection and reconnaissance, ten flew high-manoeuvre profiles to disrupt enemy air defence, and ten dived vertically for precision strike on the identified targets. The run was operated through Korean Air's independently developed integrated battlefield management system, with the AI briefing live mission status aloud as it moved from position confirmation to target identification. Korean Air said it was the only participating company to demonstrate domestically developed AI drone technology, and that the drill showed a single operator controlling multiple UAVs at once.
Source - 2026-06-29 - Regulatory - Korean Air cleared for autonomous apron-inspection trials
The exemption covers cooperative drones and a ground robot operating in airport maintenance environments. Korean Air targets reducing external inspection from 8–12 hours to under one hour.
Source - 2026-06-24 - Demonstration - Korean Air demonstrates AI aircraft-inspection robotics system
The system combines autonomous data capture with AI defect analysis and maintenance reporting. The demonstration was presented at Korea’s 2026 transport-technology exhibition.
Source
Context
Shared workflows
- Apeiro Motion
workflow adjacency - Defence UAV Operations
- Donecle
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection · Industrial Visual Inspection
- Safe Pro Group
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Percepto
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Drone Volt
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Voliro
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- heliguy
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Zeitview
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- SwissDrones
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Event 38
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Apellix
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Skyfish
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Nordic Unmanned
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Dronehub
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Microdrones
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Arkion
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Aerobotics
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Aerodyne Group
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Applied Aeronautics
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Drone Harmony
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- LiDARUSA
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- SkySpecs
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Censys Technologies
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Flylogix
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- sees.ai
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Hummingdrone
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Hexagon
workflow adjacency - Industrial Visual Inspection
- Cognex Corporation
workflow adjacency - Industrial Visual Inspection
- Skydio
workflow adjacency - Aerial Inspection
- Keyence Corporation
workflow adjacency - Industrial Visual Inspection
Context tags
- Aerial inspection - Workflow - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Industrial visual inspection - Workflow - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.
- Defence UAV operations - Workflow - Company profile and first-party sources support this operating context.