In 2017, a handful of friends who shared the same obsession with flight set out to rethink how our airspace is used. We called that dream Velary — and we’ve spent every year since taking it from a possibility to something that actually flies.
That first crew is still the core of Velary today — a small, hands-on team that designs, builds and tests everything in-house.
We are engineers, aviators, and software developers. Between us we cover composite-materials production, design, electrical and mechanical engineering, avionics, certification, acquisitions, finance, legal, production, business development, communication, marketing, sales, and public safety.
In the pursuit of that dream, we speak the same language. We try to understand the difference between what should never change and what should stay open to change — and then we do the work to make it happen.
Before the cargo and rescue aircraft, there was the Multicopter — a full-size electric passenger drone, and the machine Velary was founded to build.
We built it for real. The full-scale prototype flew for the first time in December 2018 — a milestone that proved the team could take an aircraft from a blank sheet to the air.
Regulation for passenger eVTOLs wasn’t ready, so we put the Multicopter on hold. But the hard-won knowledge — composite airframes, propulsion, flight control — didn’t go to waste. We poured it into the first Lift-series drone, which evolved into the hybrid lineup we fly today.
Composite airframes, propulsion, electrical and mechanical systems — designed, built, and tested in-house.
People who fly what we make, and who carry real operational experience into every design decision.
Avionics, autonomy, and the flight software that keeps a hybrid aircraft stable and predictable.