Delair

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Delair
FormerlyDelair-Tech
Industryaircraft and space construction  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Founded2011
FounderMichaël de Lagarde
Benjamin Benharrosh
Benjamin Michel
Bastien Mancini
Headquarters
Toulouse
,
France
Products Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Number of employees
120
Website https://delair.aero/
Footnotes /references

Delair, formerly known as Delair-Tech, [1] is a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and an asset-management company based in Toulouse, France. [2] [3] [4] It has offices in Singapore, Beijing, Los Angeles, Toulouse, Paris [2] [3] and Ghent. [5]

Delair manufactures fixed-wing UAVs or drones and software analytics programs. [2] They are used in the utilities, transportation, oil and gas, mining, agriculture, and emergency services industries. [2] [3] Delair was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in June 2018. [2]

History

Delair was founded by Michaël de Lagarde, Benjamin Benharrosh, Benjamin Michel, and Bastien Mancini in 2011. [2] [5] One year later in 2012, the company's DT18 drone was certified as the first UAV for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) communications in France. [1] [2]

In 2018, Delair purchased the assets of former competitor Airware. [2] [3] In acquiring Airware, Delair also acquired Redbird, a French data mining company. [3] The company purchased rival Gatewing from Trimble in 2016. [1] [2]

In 2018, Intel Corporation partnered with Delair to implement its technology into Intel's Insights drone platform. [6] Intel also invested in the company as part of the agreement. [7] On 6 December, 2019, it was announced that Stampede would distribute the Delair UX11 drone. Stampede will serve as the U.S. distribution partner for the company. [8]

In 2023 Delair supplied 150 UAV drones to Kyiv. [9] [10] Later, in 2024 France announced an order of 2000 UX11 "Colibri" suicide drones of which 100 will be sent to the front in Ukraine. [10] These drones offer the advantage of a 5 minute deployment time and a payload of up to 500g.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Trimble's Big Deal". Inside Unmanned Systems. 2016-10-30. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Marcellin, Frances. "Why working with Intel is helping Delair's drones fly into new markets". ZDNet. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Delair launches c-drone data processing portal – The C-Drone Review". Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  4. ↑ Mawad, Marie (2019-06-03). "Thanks to Drones, French Wine Tastes Better". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  5. 1 2 "UAV specialist in pursuit of constant improvement". www.powerengineeringint.com. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  6. ↑ Antunes, João (2017-09-11). "Intel Insight Set to Help the Commercial Drone Industry Evolve". Commercial UAV News. Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  7. ↑ O'Brien, Chris (13 September 2018). "Intel Capital invests in Delair to help French drone maker expand its software platform". VentureBeat. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Stampede to Distribute Delair UX11 Drone". Suasnews.com. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  9. ↑ stephane (2023-09-08). "Delair envoie 150 drones aux forces ukrainiennes - Delair" . Retrieved 2024-11-04.
  10. 1 2 Brahy, Jérôme. "France's Delair to deliver first batch of UX11 kamikaze drones to France and Ukraine". www.armyrecognition.com. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
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