Facts

• Company: Draganfly
• Product type: UAV
• Status: active
• Website: https://draganfly.com/products/heavy-lift/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Heavy Lift Drone is Draganfly large-payload UAV for delivery, industrial and government missions. It is designed to carry heavy payloads over field routes, supporting logistics, emergency response and specialized sensor transport.

Overview

Heavy Lift Drone is Draganfly large-payload UAV for delivery, industrial and government missions. It is designed to carry heavy payloads over field routes, supporting logistics, emergency response and specialized sensor transport.

Market context

Draganfly's Heavy Lift Drone is a multirotor UAV for carrying larger payloads in field, industrial and public-safety missions.

• Target environment: Outdoor field operations, industrial sites, emergency response areas and payload delivery settings.
• Workflow context: Heavy payload transport, field delivery, inspection support, sensor carriage and remote operation.
• Deployment model: Operator-deployed commercial UAV configured for payload carriage.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial UAV product from Draganfly.
• Adoption constraints: Requires payload integration, flight approvals, trained operators, battery management and safety planning around carried loads.
• Market position: Payload-focused drone for customers needing lift capacity beyond smaller imaging aircraft.
• Adjacent products: Heavy-lift UAV for payload movement, inspection support and public-safety missions.

Audience

Operators

Workflow

Heavy payload transport, field delivery, inspection support, sensor carriage and remote operation.

Capability

Remote operation

Deployment environment

Outdoor field operations, industrial sites, emergency response areas and payload delivery settings.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Operators
• Workflow: Heavy payload transport, field delivery, inspection support, sensor carriage and remote operation.
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment environment: Outdoor field operations, industrial sites, emergency response areas and payload delivery settings.

Specifications

• Flight Time: Up to 55 minutes depending on payload configuration
• Task Scope: Heavy payload transport, logistics, and specialized UAV operations
• Operational Role: Heavy-lift drone platform for payload transport and mission-specific integrations
• Payload Capacity Kg: 30 kg
• Range: 20 km range / LTE control link listed on spec sheet
• Autopilot: Triple-redundant IMU autopilot
• Dimensions: 318 x 318 x 76 cm / 125 x 125 x 30 in
• Support Model: Designed and manufactured in North America with Draganfly engineering and training support

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial mapping drone
• Workflow: Industrial inspection
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment Environment: Outdoor field environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2025-11-13 - Commercial Order - Draganfly secures second major Fortune 50 order to expand Heavy Lift Drone fleet - Draganfly announced a second major order from a Fortune 50 telecommunications company for Heavy Lift Dro…
• 2025-07-30 - Commercial Order - Fortune 50 telecom company purchases Draganfly Heavy Lift Drone systems for emergency response - Draganfly announced that a Fortune 50 telecommunications company purchased multiple Heavy…
• 2025-05-08 - Partnership - Volatus Aerospace partners with Draganfly to integrate bathymetric LiDAR with Heavy Lift Drone - Draganfly reported that Volatus Aerospace partnered with the company to integrate Volatus bathy…
• 2023-11-28 - Regulatory - Draganfly receives Transport Canada SFOC for Heavy Lift Drone flight testing - Draganfly received a Transport Canada Special Flight Operations Certificate for Heavy Lift Drone testing above 55…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Heavy Lift Fleet Expansion Order - second major Heavy Lift Drone fleet expansion order - 2025-11-13 - Fortune 50 telecommunications company - telecom drone operations - Draganfly secured a second major order from a Fort…
• Order Quantity - multiple Heavy Lift Drone systems - 2025-07-30 - Fortune 50 telecommunications company - emergency response UAS - A Fortune 50 telecommunications company purchased multiple Draganfly Heavy Lift Drone sy…

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