Speedbird and Moya Aero Sign Strategic MoU to Explore Integrated Drone Logistics Collaboration.

Moya Aero and Speed­bird have signed a non­bind­ing Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) to advance drone logis­tics and next-gen­er­a­tion aer­i­al mobil­i­ty solu­tions.

The MoU signed yes­ter­day (Mon­day) estab­lish­es a struc­tured frame­work for both com­pa­nies to eval­u­ate oper­a­tional syn­er­gies, tech­nol­o­gy inte­gra­tion and poten­tial long-term part­ner­ship mod­els. It will also main­tain full inde­pen­dence, with­out cre­at­ing bind­ing com­mer­cial com­mit­ments.

The MoU high­lights the com­ple­men­tary capa­bil­i­ties and prod­uct lines of both com­pa­nies, span­ning from under 25kg (55lbs) to up to 600kg (1320 lbs) of Max­i­mum Take-Off Weight (MTOW). Ini­tial efforts will pri­or­i­tize oppor­tu­ni­ties in the Amer­i­c­as, with option­al future eval­u­a­tion of Europe and Asia.

Manoel Coel­ho, CEO of Speed­bird Aero, said: “This explorato­ry col­lab­o­ra­tion would allow us to con­tin­ue to focus on our core deliv­ery mis­sions and capa­bil­i­ties, while look­ing at expand­ing the range of solu­tions we can poten­tial­ly offer to customers—sharing oper­a­tional com­mon­al­i­ty in a way that is unprece­dent­ed in the drone indus­try.”

A Shared Vision for Scal­able Aer­i­al Logis­tics

The col­lab­o­ra­tion will focus on iden­ti­fy­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to com­bine Moya’s large capac­i­ty tilt-body eVTOL with Speedbird’s cer­ti­fied drone logis­tics oper­a­tions and soft­ware ecosys­tem.

Areas of explo­ration include:

• Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty between air­craft, sys­tems, and Com­mand & Con­trol plat­forms

• Oper­a­tional syn­er­gies in drone logis­tics and coor­di­nat­ed go-to-mar­ket strate­gies
  
• Joint access to grants, pub­lic fund­ing, inno­va­tion pro­grams, and indus­try forums

Togeth­er, the com­pa­nies aim to eval­u­ate an inte­grat­ed fleet offer­ing rang­ing from small drones to large eVTOL air­craft, enabling scal­able logis­tics solu­tions for diverse mar­kets.

Speed­bird Aero is a glob­al com­pa­ny with head­quar­ters in Brazil and Por­tu­gal, spe­cial­iz­ing in unmanned aer­i­al logis­tics. The com­pa­ny devel­ops, man­u­fac­tures, and oper­ates drone deliv­ery sys­tems and is cer­ti­fied for BVLOS (Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight) oper­a­tions with mul­ti­ple air­craft mod­els.

It has also suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed near­ly 40,000 com­mer­cial drone mis­sions, demon­strat­ing the matu­ri­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty of its oper­a­tions across real-world logis­tics use cas­es. With tech­nol­o­gy deployed in 14 coun­tries, Speed­bird says it is focused on mak­ing drone logis­tics safe, scal­able and viable for large-scale deploy­ment.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the firm also offers its solu­tion through an inte­grat­ed Drone as a Ser­vice (DaaS) mod­el, sup­port­ing cus­tomers with air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ing, oper­a­tions, and reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance.

While Moya Aero is root­ed in more than two decades of aero­space R&D. It com­bines deep cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, test­ing and air­craft devel­op­ment expe­ri­ence with a strong track record of indus­try firsts, includ­ing land­mark UAV pro­grams and the first all-elec­tric air­craft in Latin Amer­i­ca and the South­ern Hemi­sphere.

MOYA was found­ed as a spin­off from ACS Avi­a­tion and is sup­port­ed by FINEP, a Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tion which sup­ports sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion. The com­pa­ny is also backed by investors such as Seed4Science, Hards and Tech­stars.

Alexan­dre Zaramela, CEO of Moya Aero, added: “This MoU allows us to explore how our large capac­i­ty eVTOL plat­form can com­ple­ment Speedbird’s real-world BVLOS oper­a­tional exper­tise and soft­ware ecosys­tem. Togeth­er, we can accel­er­ate and de-risk the deploy­ment of a grow­ing port­fo­lio of advanced aer­i­al logis­tics solu­tions.”

Andre Stein Board Direc­tor and Pres­i­dent, Amer­i­c­as, at Speed­bird and Moya, added: “This agree­ment reflects a shared belief that the future of aer­i­al logis­tics will be built through col­lab­o­ra­tion across com­ple­men­tary tech­nolo­gies and capa­bil­i­tie. Moya and Speed­bird are true pio­neers in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, hav­ing helped shape this next chap­ter in avi­a­tion his­to­ry.”