Wingcopter
About
About Wingcopter
Wingcopter develops electric vertical-takeoff delivery and surveying aircraft around its patented tilt-rotor architecture. The Wingcopter 198 rises on dedicated lift thrust, then rotates its forward propulsion units for efficient fixed-wing cruise. The aircraft carries as much as 4.7 kilograms, reaches 90 kilometres per hour and has a specified maximum range of 94 kilometres, supporting medical logistics, parcel routes and LiDAR mapping beyond visual line of sight.
Eight motors, two batteries and redundant airspeed, heading and positioning sensors provide fault tolerance, while hot-swappable battery packs reduce ground time. Control-station software handles mission planning, aircraft command and operational monitoring, and component data feeds a maintenance system for fleet reliability. Wingcopter supplies the aircraft alongside delivery operations and implementation programmes, including routes intended to connect difficult-to-reach communities and healthcare facilities.
Articles
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- YellowScan
Inbound - LIDAR - YellowScan Japan selected its VOYAGER LiDAR for the Wingcopter 198 surveying configuration
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Funding
- 2025-06-27 - Funding round - Wingcopter secures fresh funding from Nordic Secondary Fund, existing shareholders, and EIB
source: wingcopter.com
- 2023-05-12 - EIB quasi-equity financing - $46.6M - European Investment Bank provides €40M financing to Wingcopter
source: eib.org
- 2022-06-21 - Series A extension - $42M - Wingcopter raises USD 42M Series A extension
Wingcopter raised USD 42 million in a Series A extension round for electric delivery drones and logistics services. - source: evtolinsights.com
Investors
- European Investment Bank - Lead - Government / Public - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-12 - latest 2025-06-27
- Existing shareholders - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-27
- Nordic Secondary Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-27
- REWE Group - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-06-21
- Salvia - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-06-21
- XAI technologies - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-06-21
Team
- Tom Plümmer - Co-Founder and Co-CEO - Plummer leads Wingcopter commercial strategy for unmanned delivery aircraft and services.
- Jonathan Hesselbarth - Co-Founder and CTO - Hesselbarth leads Wingcopter aircraft technology and engineering for fixed-wing eVTOL delivery drones.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-04-21 - Partnership - Wingcopter and Emqopter unveil autonomous drone port for delivery operations
Wingcopter and Emqopter unveiled EMQport after testing at Emqopter's headquarters in Wurzburg. The companies describe EMQport as a fully autonomous drone port for flexible drone delivery operations. The event adds an infrastructure integration milestone for Wingcopter delivery workflows.
Source - 2025-06-27 - Funding - Wingcopter secures fresh funding from Nordic Secondary Fund, existing shareholders, and EIB
Wingcopter secured fresh funding from Copenhagen-based Nordic Secondary Fund, existing shareholders, and the European Investment Bank. The company said the funding supports growth, type-certification progress in the United States, Brazil, and Japan, and expansion into drone-based infrastructure surveys using LiDAR. Wingcopter also announced leadership changes, including the appointment of Marian Sieber as CEO and founder Tom Plummer moving into a strategy role.
Source - 2023-05-12 - Funding - European Investment Bank provides €40M financing to Wingcopter
The European Investment Bank provided €40 million in quasi-equity financing to Wingcopter. The financing was intended to scale production of the Wingcopter 198 and support drone delivery logistics services. The EIB framed the investment around electric delivery drones and logistics services for harder-to-reach locations.
Source - 2022-06-21 - Funding - Wingcopter raises USD 42M Series A extension
The round included backing from REWE Group, Salvia and XAI technologies. The financing brought Wingcopter equity raised to more than USD 60 million. The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as Wingcopter moves toward broader commercial use.
Source - 2022-05-18 - Commercial Order - Wingcopter and Continental Drones agree plan for 12,000 Wingcopter drones across Sub-Saharan Africa
Wingcopter and Continental Drones signed an agreement to establish large-scale drone delivery networks across 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The plan targeted deployment of 12,000 Wingcopter 198 systems over five years.
Source - 2021-04-27 - Product Launch - Wingcopter launches Wingcopter 198 triple-drop delivery drone
Wingcopter launched Wingcopter 198 as a fixed-wing VTOL delivery drone with a triple-drop mechanism for up to three separate packages per flight. The company said the aircraft can reach 150 km/h and is designed for middle-mile and last-mile delivery in rural, island, mountain, offshore and ship-servicing contexts. The launch gives Wingcopter a logistics UAV product milestone.
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Relations
Relationships
- Emqopter
Technology Partner - Wingcopter and Emqopter unveiled EMQport autonomous drone port.
- ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research
Hydrogen Propulsion Development Partner - ZAL and Wingcopter announced a development partnership to explore and develop a hydrogen propulsion system for Wingcopter drones.
- Quadsat
RF Payload Integration - Wingcopter and Quadsat integrated SpectraLoc with the Wingcopter 198 and presented the configuration in August 2026.
- Air Methods
Deployment Partner - Air Methods launched Spright in collaboration with Wingcopter to build a healthcare-specific drone delivery network.
- Continental Drones
Distribution Partner - Wingcopter and Continental Drones agreed plan for 12,000 drones in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Dufour Aerospace
comparable profile - Fixed Wing Vtol Delivery Drone Builder
- MightyFly
comparable profile - Fixed Wing Vtol Delivery Drone Builder
- Pipistrel
comparable profile - Fixed Wing Vtol Delivery Drone Builder
- Kite Aero
comparable profile - Fixed Wing Vtol Delivery Drone Builder
Shared workflows
- Tesseract Ventures
workflow adjacency - Drone Delivery Ground Operations
- SoftBank Robotics America
workflow adjacency - Drone Delivery Ground Operations
- Dronamics
workflow adjacency - Fixed Wing Vtol Delivery Operations
- Apian
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Sora-iina
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Skyports Drone Services
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Aviant
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Connect Robotics
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Haast Autonomous
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- JEDSY
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
Context tags
- Drone delivery ground operations - Workflow
- Drone delivery ground infrastructure - Stack Layer
- Fixed-wing VTOL delivery drone builder - Peer Group
- Aerial delivery networks - Customer Environment
- Fixed-wing VTOL drone OEM - Stack Layer
- Fixed-wing VTOL delivery operations - Workflow
- Medical supply drone delivery - Workflow
- Healthcare operations - Customer Environment
Commercial
- Wingcopter and Continental Drones agree plan for 12,000 Wingcopter drones across Sub-Saharan Africa
2022-05-18 · Order / contract
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