Airbility Signs MoU with Danao City in Philippines and Singapore’s KILSA Global for Drone Pilot Training Program

South Korea start­up Air­bil­i­ty has signed a three-par­ty Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with the Danao City Gov­ern­ment in Cebu, Philip­pines and Sin­ga­pore-based KILSA Glob­al Pte. Ltd. (“KILSA”), to joint­ly imple­ment a Drone Pilot Train­ing Pro­gram in Danao City.

Under the agree­ment, the three par­ties will joint­ly pur­sue the imple­men­ta­tion of a Drone Pilot Train­ing Pro­gram in Danao City. The scope of col­lab­o­ra­tion includes the pro­vi­sion of drone pilot train­ing mod­ules and cer­ti­fied train­ers, the deliv­ery of drone sys­tems, tech­ni­cal man­u­als, and tech­ni­cal sup­port, as well as future deploy­ment and uti­liza­tion of Air­bil­i­ty air­craft in local pro­grams.

Jin­mo Lee, CEO of Air­bil­i­ty, said: “The core of this part­ner­ship is to direct­ly cul­ti­vate drone oper­at­ing per­son­nel in the Philip­pines and build a prac­ti­cal tech­nol­o­gy uti­liza­tion frame­work on that foun­da­tion. Through a phased approach that links train­ing with tech­nol­o­gy deploy­ment, we aim to cre­ate a sus­tain­able drone ecosys­tem.”

Each par­ty brings a dis­tinc­tive role to the part­ner­ship. Air­bil­i­ty will pro­vide drone train­ing cur­ric­u­la, cer­ti­fied train­ers, drone sys­tems, and tech­ni­cal sup­port.

The imple­men­ta­tion is designed in a phased struc­ture, begin­ning with an approx­i­mate­ly six-month Train­ers Train­ing pro­gram, fol­lowed by a twelve-month tech­nol­o­gy deliv­ery and field deploy­ment phase.

By pri­or­i­tiz­ing train­er cer­ti­fi­ca­tion ahead of full-scale deploy­ment, the part­ner­ship ensures that local oper­a­tional capa­bil­i­ties are in place when the tech­nol­o­gy is ful­ly deployed.

Air­bil­i­ty devel­ops next-gen­er­a­tion aer­i­al mobil­i­ty plat­forms based on high-speed eVTOL air­craft, and has been expand­ing UAV part­ner­ships across key ASEAN mar­kets includ­ing Thai­land, Viet­na, and the Philip­pines in areas such as pub­lic safe­ty, logis­tics, and dis­as­ter response.

The com­pa­ny says this col­lab­o­ra­tion with Danao City is par­tic­u­lar­ly sig­nif­i­cant as it rep­re­sents an edu­ca­tion-focused part­ner­ship that goes beyond air­craft and tech­nol­o­gy sup­ply to encom­pass local work­force devel­op­ment.

Danao City is a local gov­ern­ment unit in Cebu, Philip­pines, com­mit­ted to advanc­ing inno­va­tion, sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty, and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment through strate­gic part­ner­ships and tech­nol­o­gy adop­tion.

The gov­ern­ment will nom­i­nate par­tic­i­pants from local insti­tu­tions, pro­vide train­ing facil­i­ties and logis­tics, and inte­grate the pro­gram into the city’s inno­va­tion and mobil­i­ty ini­tia­tives. KILSA Glob­al will coor­di­nate region­al and insti­tu­tion­al engage­ment, mon­i­tor project mile­stones, and sup­port ASEAN-lev­el knowl­edge-shar­ing.

KILSA Glob­al is part of a Sin­ga­pore-based plat­form focused on glob­al busi­ness build­ing and mar­ket entry across South­east Asia. The firm empha­sizes exe­cu­tion, deploy­ing local teams and man­ag­ing oper­a­tions on the ground, while devel­op­ing dig­i­tal and AI-dri­ven solu­tions for enter­prise trans­for­ma­tion.