Hexadrone's modular-aircraft business combines French manufacturing partners, engineering services and evolving institutional-market relationships.
Hexadrone is a French aircraft manufacturer whose business grew out of selling drone components and assembling customised systems. Its Tundra family carries that history into a modular product: the company develops the aircraft platform while working with other suppliers on equipment and applications.
The commercial interest lies in that division of work. A sensor company may need a compatible aircraft, an institutional customer may want several applications supported by a common platform, and a distributor may supply a particular regional market. Hexadrone’s public record illustrates each part of this business model more clearly than it establishes a single large procurement programme.
Hexadrone’s legal notice identifies the business at Saint-Ferréol-d’Auroure in Haute-Loire, under SIREN 802991414. The French public company API, reviewed on 6 September 2026, records an active SAS created on 26 May 2014. This is the French manufacturer, rather than an unrelated similarly named foreign entity.
The official API reports €3,878,490 in turnover for its 2024 financial record. The readable resolution in a public copy of Hexadrone’s filed accounts refers to the financial year ending 31 December 2024. The turnover figure here comes from the government API, rather than a full independent reading of the scanned income statement.
Current exact employee numbers were not established. The registry offers an older employee band, which is insufficient to present a precise September 2026 workforce.
Hexadrone remains described as privately held, with current ownership percentages undisclosed in the material used here. Its June 2022 factory-opening account named CIRLY, Sabarot Wassner and Planet Monetic as investors. That provides a dated history of backing, not a current capitalisation table.
The company’s history page names Alexandre Labesse as its founder and describes a progression from an online components shop to customised aircraft work. It dates the Tundra concept to 2018 and its official presentation to 2021.
That origin helps explain the commercial positioning. Bespoke projects expose a manufacturer to different customer requirements, but each can consume engineering time. A common platform offers the possibility of reusing more of the original development across applications, while partners supply specialised equipment.
Hexadrone currently presents Tundra 2 with its TR-Lock and TR-Module interfaces as the basis of that approach. Its marketing emphasises adaptability and a ten-year spare-parts availability commitment. Those are manufacturer propositions to assess in the actual supply agreement, rather than independently demonstrated savings for every customer.
For a buyer comparing aircraft suppliers, modularity also raises a practical commercial question: which party takes responsibility when the aircraft, attached equipment and software come from different businesses? The value depends on a supported combination and a clear service relationship, rather than simply the number of accessories shown in a catalogue.
Hexadrone announced its move into new premises in Saint-Ferréol-d’Auroure in June 2022. The company described the building and equipment as a step from smaller-scale activity towards industrial production. Its factory page states that the assembly lines were designed for annual assembly of 1,000 drones.
The opening account also described demonstrations involving Tundra with YellowScan, UAVIA, Elistair and SKIPPER NDT equipment or configurations. These names illustrate the intended ecosystem: surveying, software and inspection specialists can bring different applications to a common aircraft platform. Attendance or demonstration at a factory event does not establish an exclusive supplier agreement, but it does give a reader specific relationships to trace in later product and customer records.
That is a description of intended capacity, not verified annual output. It is useful because it identifies the industrial scale envisaged by the manufacturer, while leaving the actual utilisation rate open.
The supplier relationships add substance. In March 2022, Hexadrone identified Valla SAS, also presented as Rapid Manuf, as the partner producing moulds and technical plastic parts for Tundra. This is a concrete manufacturing relationship, with a defined role beyond a generic partner logo.
A November 2022 account introducing CIRLY said that almost all structural parts were produced in France, while acknowledging Asian sourcing for certain original-equipment components such as batteries. The disclosure is historical, but its distinction remains useful: domestic design and structural manufacture do not establish the origin of every item in an aircraft.
BDI’s Amprius analysis explores why battery orders, capacity and deliveries need separate treatment. For Hexadrone, a current bill of materials and supplier evidence would be needed to establish the present sourcing perimeter.
Hexadrone’s design-services page describes mechanical, electronics and software capabilities, alongside testing and feasibility work. It presents quotations covering development, prototyping, manufacturing and commissioning.
That places the company in two related markets. One customer can buy a platform from an established product family; another can commission engineering around a particular application. These are commercially different engagements even if they use some common components.
Its maintenance page also distinguishes customer-level maintenance from more involved service work and associated training. For institutional buyers, the important consequence is that the support arrangement has to match the organisation’s own capabilities and the equipment configuration.
The public material does not disclose the revenue split between engineering services, aircraft sales, support and any distribution activity. It would therefore be misleading to treat all recorded turnover as sales of a single Tundra model.
Hexadrone’s 11 December 2023 announcement said it had completed a regulatory analysis with NavCert and was beginning the C5 and C6 type-examination process for Tundra 2. The headline sounds more final than that procedural description, so the body is the better guide to the milestone.
The current EASA listing for Tundra 2.1 C5 C6 identifies Hexadrone and records the C5 and C6 class marks for that named model. This is more specific evidence than extending an old announcement across the entire product range.
| Record | What it supports | What remains separate |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 factory disclosure | Planned industrial capacity and local investment | Actual yearly shipments |
| 2023 regulatory announcement | Analysis completed and examinations initiated | Later status of each configuration |
| Current EASA model entry | Listed class marks for Tundra 2.1 C5 C6 | Every operator’s circumstances |
| 2026 Eviden statement | Named product-development partnership | A disclosed customer award |
These distinctions are useful when comparing Hexadrone with another French manufacturer. BDI’s Delair profile follows a different aircraft and customer history; shared nationality does not make the product or procurement evidence interchangeable.
In March 2023, Hexadrone announced that Tundra had received the French UAF label, indicating use by the French armed forces. The short company statement does not disclose a fleet quantity, unit price or contract value.
A newer primary account comes from Eviden on 16 June 2026. Eviden, through its Avantix activity, announced cooperation with Hexadrone around signals-intelligence equipment and the Tundra 2 platform. At a commercial level, the relationship combines a platform manufacturer with a specialised equipment supplier.
The statement also identifies Tundra and Gekko as Hexadrone platform families. Its claims about readiness and market position remain the parties’ statements; no named procurement customer or contract amount accompanies the partnership announcement.
Hexadrone’s most useful follow-up signals would therefore be named customer deliveries, recurring platform orders and updated production figures tied to a defined year. Its public sources already establish a manufacturer with real supplier relationships and regulatory milestones. They leave the present ownership percentages, exact workforce and detailed revenue composition unresolved.
Read public French API and company/partner/regulator pages. API2024ca=3878490; readable filedresolution confirms yearend31Dec2024, but scannedremainingaccounts unavailable viaordinaryGET403 andwebscreenshotcachemiss. Turnover attributed togovernmentAPI, not independently audited here; fiscalstartunknown. No currentexactemployee count. Factory1000annual figure is plannedcapacity; Eviden2026partnership notaward;2023classprocess distinguished fromcurrentEASAmodelentry.
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