It all starts with KITE
KITE is a modular autonomous aircraft platform built for long-range logistics. Its adaptable payload system enables a wide range of services across transport, live video, mapping, and search-and-rescue operations.
Designed around aviation-grade engineering practices, KITE supports straightforward in-field maintenance while keeping reliability, safety, and operational readiness front and centre.
A platform built from experience
Weather
Redundancy
Multirole
Internal payload
Modular
What makes KITE brilliant?
World-leading range and payload combinations.
KITE has a range of 280km with no payload, and 230km with a 4kg payload.
*payload limits are dependent on regulatory approvals and extraneous factors such as weather.
Secure internal payload storage with drop and human dispatch capability
KITE has full pass-through payload capability, with top and bottom access available across the full volume. This design enables hand dispatch, automated dispatch, drop, and winch operations while helping protect payloads from the elements.
Aviation-grade modular system enhances safety and mission flexibility
A modular system supports reliable in-field maintenance, keeping KITE flying dependably while enabling flexible payload and role equipment combinations across a wide range of use cases.
KITE is self-monitoring
KITE is made up of intelligent hardware modules, each capable of integrity self-monitoring and maintaining its IoT device status with the aircraft’s Digital Twin. This enables robust automation of quality control during final assembly and field maintenance, reducing training requirements and simplifying logistics while improving safety.
Range explorer
Explore KITE's long-range advantage
Enter a launch location to see KITE's 115 km return range and 240 km one-way range on the map.
115 km
Return range
240 km
One-way range
Many-to-one operations
One pilot. Multiple aircraft. Real-world control.
Powered by AXIOM software, KITE supports many:one operations in the field, giving operators a live view of multiple aircraft, routes, telemetry, and mission status from one operational picture.
This is not a concept interface. It is the operational layer behind real logistics networks, built to help teams scale autonomous aircraft safely and efficiently.
Many:one
Pilot-to-aircraft operations
AXIOM
Operational software layer
Seamless integration
Configuration, operations and airworthiness management
Each KITE component is monitored, its action is tracked, and its decisions recorded by high-quality data flowing from the asset ecosystem into the Digital Twin, which uses AI to keep you safe.
One-to-many Ground Control Station (GCS)
With nothing more than an iPad, a pilot can use our operationally-proven GCS to monitor multiple autonomous aircraft simultaneously, from anywhere in the world.
Simultaneous communication links
Our proven communications suite enables low latency connectivity anywhere in the world by leveraging mobile internet, satellite communications, and regional specific direct links.
This innovative approach to communications enables Kite Aero to operate in some of the most austere geographical locations, from remote communities in DR Congo to the Highlands and Isles of Scotland.
Integrated flight route planning
Planning is made easy with our cloud-based software.
Our flight-route planning platform includes automated checks to prevent breaches of aircraft, airspace, or ground-risk limits, helping keep the aviation ecosystem agile, robust, and resilient.
Once a route is planned, checked by Kite Aero’s software, and approved, version control and updates are managed centrally and processed automatically. This means an aircraft can never fly an unapproved route, helping secure deliveries on every flight.