Dufour Aerospace

Dufour Aerospace is a company based in Switzerland. It develops and makes drones for cargo transport, logistics and public safety. The site describes its work as building the operating infrastructure for automated aerial logistics.

The Aero-200 is the company's first product. It is a tilt-wing aircraft with a hybrid-electric system. The site says it can carry a 20 kg load over 200 km. It takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like an airplane, so it needs no runway.

The company also develops DufourOS, a software layer for remote fleet supervision from control centers. The site says the same automation architecture can work on Dufour aircraft and on third-party aircraft.

The site says the hybrid-electric system has few moving parts. It gives figures for energy efficiency, maintenance cost and the number of powertrain parts compared with combustion engines. The company builds its own flight controls and software stack instead of using an off-the-shelf flight controller.

Sascha Hardegger is co-chief executive. He spent many years at Swiss Air-Rescue Rega, including as head of its helicopter operations. Timon Wehmann manages the product lineup. Philippe Lutz is chief financial officer. The co-founders are Dominique Steffen and Thomas Pfammatter.

The site includes statements from customers, including Air Zermatt, Volatus Aerospace and Savback Helicopters. The company has pages on LinkedIn, YouTube and X. The site does not list a phone number or street address.