Who we serve / Drones
Drone fleets are growing faster than the people trained to keep them flying.
What is happening
453,635
commercial drones were registered in the United States as of November 2025.
Federal Aviation Administration628,600
certificated remote pilots forecast by 2030, 28% more than in 2025.
FAA forecast, reported by Unmanned Airspace~5% a year
projected growth in the commercial drone fleet over the same period.
FAA forecast, reported by Unmanned Airspace
Our view
A drone is an aircraft that gets treated like a gadget. It is built in volume, revised every few months and flown hard by operators who are not mechanics, and when it comes back with a bent arm or a bad motor someone has to repair it properly.
Most makers answer that with a PDF and a support inbox. We think that stops working at fleet scale: an operator with two hundred aircraft cannot wait on email to change a gimbal, and a maker cannot staff a help desk for every variant it has shipped.
Drones are small, dense and assembled in a strict order, which is exactly where a procedure shown on the model beats one described in words.
Where Machinebase fits
- Assembly and repair procedures drafted from the airframe's CAD.
- Field repairs an operator can follow on a phone, one step at a time.
- A procedure per variant without writing each one from scratch.