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Top 25 Drone payload manufacturers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 236 drone payload manufacturers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 8,632 professional contacts across them, including 1,216 with verified work emails. Tampa is the largest hub.
This list covers drone payload manufacturers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest drone payload manufacturers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,525 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI), we invent and pioneer disruptive technologies for military, security, environmental and civil operations worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Skydio is the leading U.S-based drone manufacturer and the world leader in autonomous flight technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Design and manufacture of essential electronic systems for unmanned vehicles, drones, and UAVs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trillium Engineering is the industry-leading provider of actionable imagery for small UAS tactical operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drone Nerds provides comprehensive drone solutions for enterprise, private, and recreational needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Freefly we have been focused on building the world's most efficient professional drone ecosystem for over a decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in San Luis Obispo, California, Inspired Flight Technologies designs and manufactures secure, high-performance unmanned aircraft systems built for operators who demand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Censys Technologies propels industrial drone users by minimizing overhead and operation headaches with industry-leading, long-range drones that distinguish your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Matternet is the leading developer of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a classic American technology company, born from garage tinkerers and hobbyists, focused on serving the emerging drone industry with unique and innovative products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unmanned Vehicle Technologies (UVT) is North America’s leading drone and robotics integrator, delivering enterprise and public safety organizations with Always On remote…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vantage makes UAVs and UAV components for customers, including the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rotor builds the most capable UAVs in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Hylio Hylio is a leading U.S-based designer and manufacturer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for precision agriculture, industrial applications, and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Soaring was founded with a vision to bridge the capability gap in aerial logistics, ensuring that every mission, regardless of its complexity, is met with precision and efficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imagine a mode of transport that would incorporate all the key benefits of piloted aviation, helicopter-type aircraft and, in addition to it, robotics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We've developed a deep drone platform technology stack and we design and manufacture our own onboard computer, remote controller, carbon composite airframes, battery charging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WootTech is an aerospace company which Design & Manufactures innovative and customized drone technology solutions and provide services for a broad spectrum of applications…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blueflite is designing and manufacturing a cargo drone platform to solve the modern-day challenges in the logistics industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision Aerial's mission is to engineer the best UAVs on the planet for commercial and public asset inspection applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lumenier is the US-based, global leader in custom manufacturing and online retail of high-performance, premium UAS/UAV/UGV/drone equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SmartDrone builds American-made drone mapping products and workflows for land surveyors and civil engineering teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DroneHive is the leading drone service provider for aerial data collection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “UVify is a developer and manufacturer of high-performance drones, autonomous technologies, and related hardware and software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SpektreWorks is a engineering services company based in Scottsdale, AZ that specializes in unmanned systems development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: drone payload manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names drone payload manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drone payload manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drone payload manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Drone payload manufacturers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 236 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among drone payload manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “drone payload manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names drone payload manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among drone payload manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,216 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names drone payload manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many drone payload manufacturers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 236 drone payload manufacturers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, headquartered in Poway, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drone payload manufacturers?
Tampa leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Austin (4) and Chicago (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,216 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 236 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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