Last-mile. Battery-electric.
AIRLOOP AEROSPACE
Cargo shouldn't have to follow the roads.
So we're building the network that doesn't.
Electric aircraft, autonomous hubs and flight intelligence — designed as one system. What takes an hour on the ground takes minutes in the air.
PROTOTYPE IN FABRICATION · FLIGHT TEST CAMPAIGN TO FOLLOW
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01 · THE PROBLEM
The ground is full.
In dense cities, rush hour turns 10 km into 25–35 minutes. Istanbul alone loses 112 hours per driver, every year.SOURCE · TOMTOM 2025
The corridor below — Ataköy to Kadıköy, straight across the mouth of the Bosphorus — takes close to an hour by road at rush hour. In the air: ~6 minutes.MODEL
It's not a distance problem. It's an access problem.
02 · THE HUB
For AirLoop, no airport needed.
A hub the size of a small building — not an airfield.
CARGO IN → ROBOT LOAD → BATTERY SWAP
↓ PETALS OPEN
LAUNCH · TURNAROUND 4–6 MINTARGET
Aircraft + autonomous hub = infrastructure.
03 · THE AIRCRAFT
Not a drone. An aircraft.
A blended-wing body with the propulsion inside it. Duct, rotor and airframe shaped as one — that's where quiet and efficiency actually come from.
15 kg · 25–30 km · 150–200 km/h · 120–150 mTARGET
The airframe is currently in fabrication, with a staged flight-test campaign to follow.TARGET
04 · CLIMB
The road goes around. We go across.
Below, vans trace the shoreline and queue for the bridge. Up here, the corridor is a straight line across the water.
GROUND~1 HRshoreline · bridge queue
AIRLOOP~6 MINstraight acrossMODEL
05 · WEATHER INTELLIGENCE
Weather isn't a go/no-go question. It's a flight-envelope question.
100 M WIND 08 KT
150 M WIND 17 KT ◄ LAYER DETECTED
200 M WIND 24 KT
PRESS 1008 hPa · VIS 8.2 KM
150 M WIND 17 KT ◄ LAYER DETECTED
200 M WIND 24 KT
PRESS 1008 hPa · VIS 8.2 KM
ROUTE A → WIND LAYER DETECTED → REPLAN → ROUTE B
You just watched it change route and altitude. The value isn't an energy percentage — it's flying the hours others cancel.TARGET
06 · AUTONOMOUS DECISION
Not "AI-powered." A decision you can audit.
INPUTS · wind · rain · battery SOC · terrain · traffic · restricted zones · mission priority
↓ MISSION EVALUATION
ALTITUDE −35 M · ROUTE +2.4 KM · SPEED −8%
↓ MISSION CONTINUES
Decisions happen onboard — the aircraft doesn't ask the internet what to do. And every flight trains the next one.
07 · TRAFFIC
Separation is a decision, not a hope.
DETECT → TRAFFIC CONFLICT · HELICOPTER
PREDICT → PREDICTED INTERSECTION · 41 SEC
REPLAN → OPTION A — CLIMB · OPTION B — DESCEND · OPTION C — REROUTE ◄ SELECTED
CONFLICT CLEARED · MISSION CONTINUES
A helicopter crosses ahead — it reroutes. A restricted zone over the old city, a 190 m crane by the port — it never enters them. Nobody is on a joystick.
Traffic awareness and centralized tracking aren't extras — the new Turkish framework makes them mandatory.SOURCE · SHGMTARGET
08 · ARRIVAL · MISSION COMPLETE · ~6 MIN
Everything moves eventually. These move first.
Down, unload, battery swap, ready. Every category moves in time — it starts where waiting is most expensive:
HEALTHCAREBlood, samples, urgent pharma — hospital to hospital, where an hour changes the outcome.
INDUSTRIALCritical spare parts and maintenance components, where a stopped line costs by the hour.
MARITIMEPort-to-vessel and vessel-to-port — documents, parts, medical supplies across water no van can cross.
PREMIUM ENTERPRISEHigh-value small cargo, where speed is part of the product.
09 · THE LANDSCAPE
Between last-mile drones and regional freighters, the middle is empty.
PAYLOAD CLASS · WHO OPERATES THERE TODAY
1–5 KG
10–15 KG
Middle-mile. Battery-electric.
45–350 KG
Regional. Hybrid propulsion.
| GROUND | HELICOPTER | AIRCRAFT | AIRLOOP AEROSPACE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road-independent | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vertical takeoff | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Urban hub footprint | — | ltd | — | ✓ |
| Autonomous | — | — | ltd | ✓ TARGET |
| Battery-electric | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Zero tailpipe emissions | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
Above 45 kg the field turns hybrid. Staying battery-electric is our constraint — and, inside a city, our advantage.
THE SAME MISSION · 15 KG OVER 29 KM
LAST-MILE CLASS5+ flightsbeyond single-flight range
AIRLOOP AEROSPACE1 flightsingle sortieMODEL
Autonomous delivery is proven. The open question is who owns the middle.
10 · THE TEAM
Built through engineering, research and industry experience.
Our team's engineering and research experience includes work at:
University of BirminghamEngineering & aerospace research
University of WarwickEngineering & manufacturing research
Arizona State UniversityEngineering research
HoneywellAerospace industry
11 · WHY NOW
The technology is converging. The infrastructure hasn't been built yet.
SHGM UAV SYSTEMS DIRECTIVE (SHT-İHA) · IN FORCE 30 JUL 2026 SOURCE · SHGM
- UAV corridors defined — explicitly for BVLOS logistics and autonomous delivery
- AI-driven autonomous systems enter regulation for the first time
- Centralized UAV traffic management (İHATTYS) + mandatory Remote ID
- Flight-software certification required — our mission computer is on that path
The market is moving with it: cargo drones $2.74B (2026) → $29.4B (2034).SOURCE · STRAITS RESEARCH The EU separately projects €14.5B across all drone services by 2030.SOURCE · EUROPEAN COMMISSION
12 · THE NETWORK
One aircraft is a vehicle. A network of aircraft and hubs is infrastructure.
The corridor you just flew multiplies. Value scales as aircraft × hub density × corridor utilization, and every flight adds operational data no one else holds.
Built for dense cities — the same system, any skyline.
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