Silvertone Electronics
About
About Silvertone Electronics
Silvertone Electronics designs and manufactures Australian fixed-wing unmanned aircraft for commercial data collection, inspection, surveying, emergency response and defence operations. Its Flamingo Mk3, Cotesia and Sparrow programmes span long-endurance, backpackable and heavy-lift platforms, with payload integration and BVLOS system engineering.
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Team
- Ken Taylor - Managing Director - Leads the company and contributes systems-engineering experience to its unmanned-aircraft programmes.
- Gerry Gerlach - Chief Executive Officer - Joined Silvertone as chief executive in 2016 after developing its strategic plan.
- Sam Cowen - Chief Remote Pilot and Avionics Specialist - Leads remote-flight operations and contributes embedded computing, avionics and autonomous-flight engineering.
Timeline
Events
- 2023-10-08 - Demonstration - Silvertone demonstrates Flamingo Mk3 in firefighting airspace trial
Fire Connect led the exercise, with Silvertone supplying airborne observation using the Flamingo Mk3. The trial used a common operating picture and radio communications to coordinate aircraft beyond visual line of sight. A mobile ground station handled launch and recovery while the aircraft transmitted live video to support resource management.
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Context
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Context tags
- Public-safety drone builder - Peer Group - https://silvertone.com.au/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Tactical reconnaissance UAV builder - Peer Group - https://silvertone.com.au/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Inspection and Survey - Workflow - https://silvertone.com.au/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.