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Helicopter precision. Drone economics.
The U9 is the first Canadian-built spray drone to carry a full-width boom on a wing. Twenty-six gallons, a 38-foot swath, and 135 acres an hour at two gallons to the acre — planned and flown by software we wrote ourselves.
Footage above is played at 50% speed for demonstration.
- 26gal
- Tank · 100 liters
- 38ft
- Swath · 11.7 meters
- 135acres/hr
- Covers · at 2 gallons per acre
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Built and tested by industry leaders
The U9 was designed with large-scale helicopter and drone operators, to fill the gap between them and capture the best of both.
Built for spray
The U9’s wing design mirrors the way helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft apply product, delivering a consistent droplet size and pattern across the full swath. Conventional drones carry product to the target on rotor downwash instead.
AI-powered operating system
Built for easy operation and optimized missions. Our AI-powered planning software and on-board control systems plan, adapt and execute automatically, with precision.
Link Mode
The U9 intelligently plans and pairs with other U9s, so one operator runs several aircraft at once — no manual workarounds, no added complexity.
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Four rotors up. One wing forward.
It lifts straight off the headland like a multirotor, then tilts forward and flies the mission on the wing. No runway, no launcher, no compromise at either end.
Modular by design.
Quick-disconnect wings, batteries and folding booms, making it easy to transport between missions and be back in the air in under 30 minutes.
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Designed for easy maintenance with swappable components in the field.
The wing
Carries the aircraft in forward flight, so the rotors are not fighting gravity the whole time it is airborne.
Tilt rotor
Lifts vertically off the headland, then tilts forward for the run. Four of them, each controlled independently.
Flight computer
Runs the mission on board — terrain, obstacles and coverage — without waiting on a link to the ground.
26-gallon tank
One hundred liters of product, carried low and centred so the aircraft handles the same full or empty.
Full-width boom
Nozzles spaced across the whole span, laying a 38-foot swath the way a ground boom does.
Select a point to see what it does.
- The wing Carries the aircraft in forward flight, so the rotors are not fighting gravity the whole time it is airborne.
- Tilt rotor Lifts vertically off the headland, then tilts forward for the run. Four of them, each controlled independently.
- Flight computer Runs the mission on board — terrain, obstacles and coverage — without waiting on a link to the ground.
- 26-gallon tank One hundred liters of product, carried low and centred so the aircraft handles the same full or empty.
- Full-width boom Nozzles spaced across the whole span, laying a 38-foot swath the way a ground boom does.
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It sees the whole job, and everything standing in it.
360° LiDAR and machine vision are on every U9 at the base price. The aircraft builds its own picture of the ground and what is on it, rather than trusting that the map is current.
- 360° LiDAR
- Continuous ranging in every direction. It holds height above the crop instead of above sea level, so it follows rolling ground the way you would.
- Machine vision
- Runs on the aircraft, not on a link back to the ground — because decisions cannot wait on connectivity that rural work does not have.
- Detects and avoids
- Downed trees, power lines, poles, pivots, standing equipment, people. The aircraft works around what is actually there.
- Included, not an upgrade
- The full sensing stack ships on every U9 at the base price. Nothing to specify, nothing to add later.
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Link Mode
The U9 intelligently plans and pairs with other U9s, enabling a single operator to run multiple aircraft at a time — without manual workarounds and complexities.
- One operator
- A fleet on one screen, set up the same way a single aircraft is.
- Coordinated automatically
- Aircraft divide the mission between them and stay clear of one another. Nothing to deconflict by hand.
- Scales with the job
- Add an aircraft and the plan adapts. No second plan, no second operator.
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Where it sits
| U9 Spray Winged spray drone | Large spray drone Multirotor | Piston helicopter With a pilot on board | Turbine helicopter With a pilot on board | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tank | 26 gal | 26 gal | 75 gal | 130 gal |
| Spray speed 1 | 60 mph | 45 mph | Varies | Varies |
| Swath 2 | 38 ft | 16 to 43 ft | Depends on setup | 33 ft |
| How it sprays | Boom across the full wing | Two or four spinning discs | Boom | Boom |
| Pilot on board | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Starting price 3 | $99,000 | Varies by dealer | From about $646,000 | From about $1.46 million |
- 1 Helicopters fly faster than this between sites, but they spray at their own working speed with booms fitted, not at cruise.
- 2 Multirotor swath varies with how high and how fast it flies, and with the crop underneath it.
- 3 Helicopter prices are for the aircraft alone, before any spray equipment is fitted.
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Multi-mission capable
Standing crop, wet ground, steep ground, and every acre that currently waits until it is too late to matter.
- Row crops
- Fungicide and insecticide passes on standing corn and beans, late-season work when the ground rig will not fit, and wet fields you cannot get a machine into.
- Hills and rough ground
- Ground too steep, too wet, or too broken up for a sprayer, and too awkward for a helicopter to work close to.
- Orchards and vineyards
- Row work where you want product on the canopy without a big rotor disk sitting directly over every tree.
- Forestry and land management
- Replanting, brush control, and treatment on ground nobody is driving equipment across.
- Mosquito and vector control
- Set routes flown the same way every time, low and slow, on a schedule.
- Rights of way
- Long straight runs along power lines, pipelines, and rail.
And if the aircraft for your job doesn’t exist, we’ll build it.
With over eight years of experience building and customizing drones, our team has the expertise to develop custom payloads, software packages and more.
Tell us what you need
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Eight years in the making, and protected.
The U9 is the result of more than eight years of research and development, built on a patent that is ours. This is not a first attempt at a spray drone.
That time went into one problem: putting the lift and the consistent spray pattern of a winged aircraft into a machine that still has the flexibility of a drone. Take off vertically from the edge of the job, fly the mission on the wing, come back to the same spot. Getting both halves of that right is what took eight years.
Don’t take our word for it — US 10,773,802 is public record.
- Protected by patent
- The way this aircraft lifts off and then flies forward on the wing is ours, and it is protected. Not licensed, not copied.
- Our own software
- Flight planning and fleet coordination are written in house, not licensed in. When the aircraft changes, the software changes with it.
- Designed and built in Canada
- Airframe, autonomy and software are developed under one roof, so when something needs to change it changes here.
- Backed by public research funding
- Our development work has been supported by competitive government research grants.
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Dealership opportunities, worldwide.
Interested in reselling or servicing the U9 in your region? Connect with us to learn more about becoming a dealer or service center.
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Next available delivery slots are March 2027.
Reserve your build and delivery slot today to ensure delivery for the 2027 season.
$99,000 USD / $129,000 CAD
$10,000 holds your place, and comes off the price.