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The U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade has tested FlyingBasket drones at least three times for blood resupply and casualty transport in Europe.
FlyingBasket's FB3 flew 550-plus sorties to Orsted's offshore wind farms last summer in what the operator called the largest non-military drone cargo programme ever run.
Leonardo holds roughly 10 percent of the company and a board seat, connecting an Italian defense prime to a startup with FAA approval and live U.S. Army testing.
Brothers Moritz and Matthias Moroder founded FlyingBasket in 2016 out of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, in the German-speaking Alpine province of South Tyrol. The company builds the FB3, an all-electric coaxial multirotor that lifts 100 kilograms and swaps batteries in two minutes. In a market full of paper aircraft and subscale demonstrators, FlyingBasket has an unusual claim: it has been flying paying cargo since at least 2021.
Three things happened in close sequence. In the first half of 2025, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the U.S. Army's contingency response force in Europe, used FlyingBasket drones in its third round of testing for whole-blood and casualty logistics. By August, operator Skylift had completed more than 550 flights to Orsted's North Sea wind turbines using the FB3. And in June 2026, an EU-funded mountain rescue project published results showing FlyingBasket drones cut evacuation times by a factor of three.
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