Germandrones opens production and development subsidiary

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The Songbird of Germandrones over MGL airport.

The Songbird at the Borussia Mönchengladbach stadium, ready for takeoff.

The innovation cluster at Mönchengladbach Airport is growing with the opening of a new Germandrones subsidiary.

Germandrones establishes itself in Mönchengladbach. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, the company has decided to set up a further production and development subsidiary at Mönchengladbach Airport (MGL) for the first time. A logical step, as the specialist for unmanned aerial systems and the MGL team are already cooperating in various research projects.

Already in 2021, a Songbird drone of Germandrones took off as a small-scale SkyCab for a flight over the Mönchengladbach city centre with a stopover at the Borussia stadium in Nordpark. The SkyCab project team thus successfully passed the practical test for future air taxi routes inside and outside the control zone in urban areas. And the collaboration between MGL and Germandrones is going on. Joint follow-up research projects for integrating unmanned aerial systems into active airspace are currently executed at Mönchengladbach Airport. The SkyTRACKplus project primarily deals with the development of publishable and controlled flight procedures for air taxis and drones. The Smart City drone logistics project is more specific; in this project the transportation of medical samples from the hospital to the laboratory is tested. Other, possibly time-critical cases, such as the transportation of organ transplants, can also be imagined. In that case, the rapid transportation by drone can save lives. Drones can also complement rescue helicopters or small aeroplanes in a climate-neutral manner.

“We are happy to welcome Germandrones as a further innovative player to MGL. We can jointly create prospects for climate-neutral and efficient aviation for the good of society. Offering the infrastructure on the ground and in the air, we provide the real-world laboratory for pioneering aviation systems”, the MGL Managing Director Andreas Ungar explains. “The reputation as a location for innovation, as well as the proximity to Aachen's universities and the immediate flight opportunities for the drones were the decisive factors in favour of Mönchengladbach Airport”, Dr Klaus Scho, CEO of Germandrones, reports. “Our new production and development subsidiary at MGL offers excellent development opportunities for the future. For many years, we have closely worked with the team at Mönchengladbach Airport on innovations in aviation. During this collaboration, we have successfully developed and implemented projects in the field of air traffic management and the use of drones in active airspace with manned aviation.”

Germandrones is already closely connected with the Rhine-Ruhr region through the CONDOR-Group in Essen.  In the first instance, five new full-time employees have been hired for the production of the systems at the MGL site, but the premises are designed to accommodate further staff increases. Germandrones is currently looking for pilots to test the systems, for customer presentations and training courses, as well as hardware and software specialists for the further development of the systems and the company's own control software ’droneIntelligence’.

 

Presse contact:

Christina Schnoklake

Telephone: +49 (0) 2161 4664-203 
Mobile:    +49 (0)   163 5885 203 
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Contact at Germandrones:

Oliver Arning

Germandrones - A Brand of CONDOR
Head of Corporate Communications

Ruhrtalstraße 81
45239 Essen

Tel.     0201 / 84 153-113
Fax     0201 / 84 153-151
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Web.:   www.condor-sicherheit.de

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