Wingcopter

Wingcopter is a German company in Weiterstadt, near Darmstadt, that designs and builds long-range autonomous drones for logistics and surveying. Founded in 2017 by Tom Plümmer, Jonathan Hesselbarth and Ansgar Kadura, it works both as a manufacturer of aviation-grade drone technology and as a delivery service provider.

Products

The Wingcopter 198 is a tilt-rotor eVTOL aircraft built for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) missions. It takes off and lands vertically and flies forward like a fixed-wing aircraft.

• Size: 198 x 152 x 65 cm
• Maximum take-off weight: 25 kg
• Payload: up to 4.7 kg
• Maximum range: 94 km
• Speed: 90 km/h
• Eight motors, eight ESCs and two batteries for redundancy, with hot-swap batteries
• Triple-drop delivery of several packages per flight (in development)

The company also shows the Wingcopter 262, a reconnaissance drone with up to six hours of flight time.

Applications and markets

The drones are used for cargo delivery and LiDAR surveying. Wingcopter lists projects in Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico and Ukraine, including medical supply and blood transport, disaster management surveying and deliveries to rural areas.

Company facts

• Founded in 2017
• Headquarters in Weiterstadt, Germany
• Partners named on its site include Siemens Healthineers, ITOCHU, ANA and Synerjet
• Joint venture with TAF Industries to scale drone production in Germany
• Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

Contact

Email: info@wingcopter.com