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Wingcopter 198

Wingcopter, founded in 2017 in Darmstadt, Germany by Tom Pluemmer, Jonathan Hesselbarth, and Ansgar Kadura, makes the Wingcopter 198, a fixed-wing tilt-rotor electric vertical-takeoff delivery drone aimed at medical and logistics delivery in Africa and other remote regions. It carries up to five kilograms across up to three drop sites, ranges up to seventy-five kilometers at up to 150 kilometers per hour, and lets one operator monitor as many as ten aircraft, on roughly 110 million dollars of total funding including a 40-million-euro European Investment Bank investment in 2023 and a Series B closed in June 2025. The registry records it at pilot, leaning early-commercial, maturity: it holds beyond-visual-line-of-sight permissions in Germany and other European regions and ran real BVLOS medical deliveries in Malawi, but at humanitarian-project scale, while its flagship plan to deploy twelve thousand drones across forty-nine African countries is a multi-year target rather than realized volume, its revenue is very low at an aggregator-estimated 1.73 million dollars in 2024, and its US, Brazil, and Japan type certifications are in progress rather than granted, with no FAA BVLOS authorization. A correction worth recording: the storyline of a German delivery-drone startup struggling financially into insolvency belongs to Volocopter, which filed for insolvency in December 2024, not to Wingcopter, whose risk signal is thin revenue and repeated capital raises rather than a filed insolvency.

Wingcopter 198 is an aerial robot built by

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
aerial
Maturity stage
pilot
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
9318fc41-6011-427d-b1a0-529ecf668815

Specs

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specs
Wingcopter 198: fixed-wing tilt-rotor eVTOL delivery drone; payload up to 5 kg (triple-drop, up to 3 packages); range up to 75 km; max speed 150 km/h; one operator can monitor up to 10 aircraft. ~$110M total funding (EIB, REWE, ITOCHU, DRONE FUND). Series B closed Jun 27 2025.
formFactor
aerial (fixed-wing tilt-rotor eVTOL delivery drone; medical/logistics)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (4)

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingcopter
  2. https://dronelife.com/2025/06/30/wingcopter-secures-new-funding-and-strengthens-leadership-team/
  3. https://www.therobotreport.com/wingcopter-brings-in-42m-for-delivery-drones/
  4. https://dronenews.africa/wingcopter-in-malawi-to-stay/

Common questions

What is Wingcopter 198?
Wingcopter, founded in 2017 in Darmstadt, Germany by Tom Pluemmer, Jonathan Hesselbarth, and Ansgar Kadura, makes the Wingcopter 198, a fixed-wing tilt-rotor electric vertical-takeoff delivery drone aimed at medical and logistics delivery in Africa and other remote regions. It carries up to five kilograms across up to three drop sites, ranges up to seventy-five kilometers at up to 150 kilometers per hour, and lets one operator monitor as many as ten aircraft, on roughly 110 million dollars of total funding including a 40-million-euro European Investment Bank investment in 2023 and a Series B closed in June 2025. The registry records it at pilot, leaning early-commercial, maturity: it holds beyond-visual-line-of-sight permissions in Germany and other European regions and ran real BVLOS medical deliveries in Malawi, but at humanitarian-project scale, while its flagship plan to deploy twelve thousand drones across forty-nine African countries is a multi-year target rather than realized volume, its revenue is very low at an aggregator-estimated 1.73 million dollars in 2024, and its US, Brazil, and Japan type certifications are in progress rather than granted, with no FAA BVLOS authorization. A correction worth recording: the storyline of a German delivery-drone startup struggling financially into insolvency belongs to Volocopter, which filed for insolvency in December 2024, not to Wingcopter, whose risk signal is thin revenue and repeated capital raises rather than a filed insolvency.
Who makes Wingcopter 198?
Wingcopter 198 is made by Wingcopter, based in Darmstadt, Germany, founded in 2017.
Where is Wingcopter 198 deployed?
No verified deployments of Wingcopter 198 are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Wingcopter 198's maturity stage?
Wingcopter 198 is at the pilot stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Pilot stage means at least one named-customer trial deployment is verified.