New Commercialization Site; Condor; next generation SparrowSome very important news. New site for commercialization and planning with customers, with entry of Condor soon and next generation Sparrow.
DRONE DELIVERY CANADA ANNOUNCES OPENING OF COMMERCIALIZATION CENTRE (CNW
Group/Drone Delivery Canada Corp.)
The Commercialization Centre is on approximately 100 acres west of the Company's main office and
will be operational in November. DDC will maintain a permanent facility there with dedicated staff
and will scale with Company growth.
The Condor is currently the Company's largest drone with an expected range of 200km (124mi) and
a payload capacity of 180kg (396lb) and is fully integrated with the Company's patented and awardwinning
FLYTE software system.
"With the ongoing successful testing of our Condor delivery drone and as we work towards its
commercialization, this location will facilitate engineering testing, pre customer delivery verification,
customer demonstrations, customer & employee training, and maintenance of Condor drones, as
well as for future drone platform enhancements and modifications for an anticipated diverse range of
future applications, potentially to include inspection and data collection services. The new
Commercialization Center will bring lasting commercial benefits across the whole organization," said
Michael Zahra, President & CEO of DDC.
Additionally, first test flights of the next generation Sparrow drone are expected to commence in
November. It is expected to have a range of 30km and a payload capacity of 4.5kg, along with next
generation motor technology, next generation battery technology, touchless cargo drop functionality,
an optional public announcement system and an optional aircraft parachute. This new functionality is
expected to further unlock potential customer use-cases and facilitate future flights over people to
open up new, commercially addressable future markets in urban and residential areas for B2B and
also B2C retail residential deliveries.
The current version Sparrow continues to commercially operate successfully at current customer
projects and will continue to be available to future customers. As previously announced, the
Company will look to complete the Robin XL commercialization as future market demands may
indicate.
The Company's turnkey logistics solution is marketed in a managed service SaaS business model in
Canada and as a licensed managed service internationally.