European Medical Drone signs purchase agreement with Dufour Aerospace for 11 Aero2 tilt-wing aircraft

Euro­pean Med­ical Drone, a Swedish drone oper­a­tor con­nect­ing hos­pi­tals by means of drone trans­porta­tion, and Dufour Aero­space yes­ter­day signed a devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion and pur­chase agree­ment for 11 Aero2 uncrewed tilt-wing air­craft.

The agree­ment includes the deliv­ery of one Aero2 X2.3 pro­to­type air­craft in 2024 and 10 ser­i­al Aero2 air­craft with deliv­ery start­ing in 2026. Swedish heli­copter ven­dor and part­ner of Dufour Aero­space Savback Heli­copters is assist­ing this trans­ac­tion.

“Dufour’s Aero2 is exact­ly what we are look­ing for, and at this stage, we do not see anoth­er prod­uct offer­ing the same fea­tures close to mar­ket entry,” said Mar­tin Braaen, Founder of Euro­pean Med­ical Drone.

“Our mis­sion is to facil­i­tate shar­ing of vital resources among hos­pi­tals. Our sys­tem allows hos­pi­tals to request and receive essen­tial sup­plies such as blood, med­i­cines, and med­ical equip­ment.

“As we have a focus on con­nect­ing hos­pi­tals which are sev­er­al hun­dred kilo­me­tres apart, we need long-range, heavy-lift, uncrewed air­craft with a lot of redun­dan­cy for safe­ty.”

Thomas Pfam­mat­ter, CEO of Dufour Aero­space added: “Con­nect­ing hos­pi­tals makes sense, and this con­tract con­firms that our spec­i­fi­ca­tions meet not only use cas­es over­seas, but also in Europe.”

Michael Savbäck, founder and CEO of Savback Heli­copters con­clud­ed: “Savback Heli­copters shows our com­mit­ment to advanc­ing the future of med­ical logis­tics through cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies.

“We look for­ward to sup­port­ing Euro­pean Med­ical Drone’s mis­sion to cre­ate a robust med­ical logis­tics net­work to hos­pi­tals in Scan­di­navia. The Dufour Aero2’s abil­i­ty to seam­less­ly tran­si­tion between roles and mis­sions makes it a stand­out choice for a wide range of appli­ca­tions.”

The three com­pa­nies will draft the nec­es­sary con­cepts of oper­a­tions, sub­mit the nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion to the author­i­ties, and car­ry out tri­al oper­a­tions to iden­ti­fy both the poten­tial and lim­i­ta­tions of oper­a­tions and imple­ment use case spe­cif­ic require­ments into the air­craft.

Head­quar­tered in Gothen­burg, Swe­den, Euro­pean Med­ical Drone is a team com­pris­ing drone enthu­si­asts and avi­a­tion experts which blends rich pilot­ing back­grounds with cut­ting-edge drone tech­nol­o­gy.

Ear­li­er this month, Air Ener­gy was select­ed as a sup­pli­er for the smart bat­tery packs for the hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem of the Dufour Aero­space uncrewed tilt-wing air­craft Aero2. Air Ener­gy will design the bat­tery hous­ing, the mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal con­nec­tion of the bat­tery packs and the bat­tery man­age­ment sys­tem for the Aero2.

Dufour Aero­space selects Air Ener­gy for bat­tery mod­ules