AIRO Group
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Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Chirinjeev Kathuria |
| Headquarters | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
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The AIRO Group, also known as AIRO, is a US-based urban air mobility and drone ecosystem company founded in 2005. It is headquartered in the Greater Chicago Area. Chirinjeev Kathuria is the AIRO Group's executive chairman.[1][2][3]
AIRO is a multi-faceted air mobility, autonomy, and aerospace company focusing on urban air mobility and drone ecosystems. It was founded in 2005 to operate AIRO Drone and Agile Defense. It was established as an air drones base company.
In 2021, AIRO acquired Aspen Avionics and proceeded with a merger with Coastal Defense. On October 6, 2021, Jaunt Air Mobility entered into a merger with the AIRO group. AIRO's subsidiary, Jaunt Air Mobility, advanced to the next phase of the AFWERX High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing Concept Challenge for the United States Air Force and United States Special Operations Command.[4]
AIRO confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.[5][6]
Description
The company works over commercial, military, robotics, crewed/uncrewed aerial systems, and multi-modal aircraft and avionics systems.[7] Other domains of this company include cargo transport and training. It addresses the entire drone ecosystem.
It has seven aerospace companies as its subsidiaries: AIRO Drone and Sky-Watch for commercial drones, Aspen Avionics for Advanced Avionics, Agile Defense and Coastal Defense for training, Jaunt Air Mobility for electric air mobility, and Aironet.[8]
