In preparation for upcoming flight demonstration events with the iART Alliance and the Alberta Hub Region, AIRmarket conducted a long-endurance BVLOS operation from Andrew to St. Paul and back.

The mission logged 178 km over 3 hours, launching in -12C conditions and proving, once again, that real drone operations in Alberta are built in real Alberta weather.

This was not a polished lab exercise. This was field ops — truck-based mission support, live airspace awareness, boots on the ground, and a long-range aircraft doing the job it was built to do.

Working alongside great partners, this flight helped validate:

– long-range BVLOS operations across rural Alberta
– RTM-enabled shared airspace awareness in live conditions
– practical, deployable support infrastructure for real missions
– operational readiness for the next round of public demonstrations

This work builds directly on the Andrew-to-St. Paul demonstration completed in September 2025 and continues to move us toward routine cargo delivery operations in 2026.

Big thanks to the teams helping push this forward:
Fliight Technologies
SmartFleetDrones
ARACE
Alberta Hub Region
Skyways Project

We’re not just talking about what’s possible. We’re flying it, testing it, and tightening the bolts on what commercial drone operations in Alberta can look like.

AIRmarket, Founder and Executive Director of the Alberta RTM Trials (iART) Alliance, is enabling the drone economy with funding from the Government of Alberta and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA). Please check out our website for more information.