# Overair: drone company

Canonical ID: `931300b6-182e-4b7f-acb6-9681cd006009`

## Key facts

- **Products:** [Butterfly](/models/overair-butterfly.md) eVTOL
- **Investors:** [Hanwha Systems ($25M initial + $145M total)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Origin:** Spin-out from Karem Aircraft (Abraham Karem, Predator drone inventor)
- **Technology:** Optimum Speed Tiltrotor (OSTR) — patented by Karem Aircraft

- **Slug:** overair
- **Status:** active
- **HQ:** Santa Ana, California, USA
- **Category:** [Drones](/drones)

## Models

- [Butterfly](/models/overair-butterfly.md) (aerial) (id: `1ee5bd05-fc14-4c1d-9a64-cc1cb3edd571`)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Overair?

US-based eVTOL company headquartered in Santa Ana, California, spun out from Karem Aircraft (founded by Abraham Karem, inventor of the Predator drone). Overair is developing the Butterfly, an all-electric tilt-rotor eVTOL using patented Optimum Speed Tiltrotor (OSTR) technology for efficient hover and cruise. Backed by Hanwha Systems of South Korea with $145M+ total investment. The Butterfly features four large tilting propellers designed for low noise and high efficiency.

### What does Overair make?

Overair has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Butterfly (Overair builds physical robots).

### Where is Overair headquartered?

Overair is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, USA.

### Where does Overair operate robots?

Overair is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Overair a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Overair ranks in roughly the top 80% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (1)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overair

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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