Product profile
Black Swan
Black Swan is Dronamics’ fixed-wing cargo drone for middle-mile logistics from short or unpaved airstrips. The remotely piloted or fully automated aircraft...
Facts
- Company
- Dronamics
- Product type
- cargo_uav
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- long-range middle-mile cargo transport
- Website
- https://www.dronamics.com/autonomouslogistics
About Black Swan
Black Swan is a 16-metre-wingspan cargo aircraft designed to operate from airstrips as short as approximately 400 metres, including unpaved sites. Its enclosed bay carries up to 350 kilograms or 3.5 cubic metres, supporting time-sensitive goods that are too urgent for road freight but do not justify a conventional crewed cargo aircraft.
The aircraft can be remotely piloted or fully automated through a mobile ground-control station using satellite communications. Dronamics is developing an airline-style operating network around the platform and holds a European light-UAS-operator certificate and international aviation codes. Black Swan has completed more than 500 test flights but remains in pre-commercial service development.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Cargo drone
Core: 350 kg payload
Function: Aerial logistics
Audience: Cargo operators
Specifications
- cargo_volume_m3
- 3.5 m³ cargo volume m³
- flight_control_mode
- Remotely piloted or fully automated
- ground_control_package
- Fully mobile ground-control station with worldwide SATCOM
- length_m
- 8 m fuselage length m
- max_operating_altitude
- 30,000+ ft maximum altitude
- max_speed_kmh
- Up to 200 km/h km/h
- operational_approval
- EU Light UAS Operator Certificate; IATA and ICAO aviation codes
- payload_capacity_kg
- 350 kg cargo payload kg
- range_km
- Up to 2,500 km range km
- runway_length_m
- 400 m airstrip required m
- takeoff_surface
- 400 m airstrip; paved or unpaved operation
- target_cargo
- Perishables, medicine, aid, spare parts, parcels and other time-sensitive cargo
- test_flights_completed
- More than 500 test flights across seven locations flights
- wingspan_m
- 16 m wingspan m
Operations
- Environment
- regional airfields, short and unpaved runways, remote logistics routes
- Primary user
- cargo operators, logistics providers, humanitarian teams, defence logistics units
- Role
- middle-mile cargo delivery, time-sensitive logistics, remote resupply
- Interaction model
- operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- fixed-wing cargo unmanned aircraft
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Dronamics signs cargo-drone interline agreement with Qatar Airways Cargo — 2023-11-29
- Dronamics and SDF agree UAE Black Swan manufacturing JV — 2023-11-15
- Dronamics signs Emirates Post cargo-drone LOI — 2023-10-13
- Dronamics receives IATA and ICAO airline designators — 2023-07-13
- Dronamics flies Black Swan cargo drone — 2023-05-25
- Dronamics raises USD 40M pre-Series A — 2023-02-17
- Dronamics obtains EU Light UAS Operator Certificate — 2022-05-25