Aircraft
A patented VTOL platform carrying up to 20 parcels up to 200 km on a single autonomous flight — optimised for the volumes and economics of rural and remote routes.
Zero-emission autonomous drone logistics
Minutes,
not hours.
For the 30% of the world cut off by water, distance and cost, IONA flies essential goods the last hundred kilometres — clean, autonomous, and on demand. The physical internet starts here.
Trusted by operators, carriers, agencies and innovators
The problem
Distance is the tax
nobody talks about.
Information became instant. Energy became distributed. Goods are next. Yet for billions of people, geography still decides what arrives — and how long they wait for it.
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of the world's population lives where a simple delivery costs 3–10× more than in cities.
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the cost multiplier for the same parcel once you leave the dense urban core.
4–8h
a single sea ferry crossing — for a journey IONA completes in 6 minutes.
Minutes, not hours
Same goods. Same destination.
A different century of speed.
The old way
4–8hours
Ferry crossings, depot consolidation and a next-day van that may never come when weather and tide disagree.
With IONA
6minutes
One autonomous flight, vertical take-off to centimetre-precision arrival — zero emissions, no road, no waiting.
Next-day van becomes a 22-minute mission. The four-to-eight-hour ferry becomes a 6-minute flight.
“The physical internet
IONA — engineered for operations, not demonstrations
starts here.”
The product
One stack.
Full autonomy.
Your brand.
Operators launch autonomous delivery networks without building aviation infrastructure. IONA is a complete, white-label technology stack — the aircraft, the ground systems, the software and the regulatory backbone — ready to fly under your name.
Ground infrastructure
Take-off, landing and autonomous cargo-exchange hardware that drops into existing depots, ports and clinics — no runway, no terminal, no aviation real estate.
Operations software
Fleet planning, live mission monitoring and routing built for repeatable daily service — not one-off flights. Your dispatchers, your dashboards, your SLAs.
Regulatory compliance
Airworthiness, BVLOS approvals and airspace integration handled as part of the stack, so operators inherit a path to scale instead of starting from a blank sheet.
Start where the problem is sharpest. Scale everywhere.
Capabilities
Five things the aircraft does on every mission.
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Vertical take-off
Lifts from a clinic forecourt, a quayside or a field. No runway, no infrastructure footprint.
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Long-range cruise
Transitions to efficient forward flight to cover up to 200 km on a single charge — clean and quiet.
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Centimetre-precision arrival
Lands exactly where it's needed — a marked pad, a rooftop, a delivery point — every single time.
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Autonomous cargo exchange
Loads and releases parcels with no crew on the ground — secure handoff at both ends of the route.
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Ops software & compliance
Mission planning, monitoring and the regulatory framework that keeps a network flying, day after day.
Applications
Wherever a delivery costs too much, takes too long, or simply never comes.
Healthcare
Blood, vaccines, samples and prescriptions delivered to remote clinics in minutes — the difference between waiting and treating.
Rural & remote
Communities cut off by distance and terrain get a daily, dependable lifeline that doesn't depend on the road network.
Express & e-commerce
Next-day becomes same-hour. White-label drone delivery extends carrier networks into low-density catchments profitably.
Industrial & manufacturing
Critical spare parts and tooling reach sites and plants on demand, keeping production lines and crews moving.
Maritime & offshore
Ship-to-shore and rig resupply without a launch boat or a helicopter — a 6-minute flight replaces an 8-hour crossing.
Islands & coastlines
The places where ferries set the timetable — IONA flies the gap on demand, zero-emission, whatever the tide.
By the numbers
One flight does the work of a day.
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parcels per flight
0km
range on one charge
0min
vs a 4–8h ferry
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CO₂ in flight · zero-emission
Team
Founded in Cranfield. Built for the world's hardest routes.
IONA Logistics Ltd was founded in 2021 in Cranfield, United Kingdom — now operating across the UK and the United States. Our founder is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and the team brings together aerospace engineering, autonomous systems and supply-chain operators united by a single belief: access should not depend on a postcode.
Cleantech & Climate Tech
Zero-emission flight, designed to displace diesel vans and ferries on the routes that pollute most per parcel.
Robotics & Drones
A patented VTOL aircraft and autonomous ground systems engineered for daily operations, not demos.
Supply Chain & Mobility
A full stack that lets any operator stand up a delivery network — and scale it everywhere.
News
From the runway-free frontier.
IONA & CMA CGM explore zero-emission ship-to-shore corridors
Replacing launch-boat resupply with 6-minute autonomous flights across maritime and offshore operations.
Read moreDepartment for Transport backs rural BVLOS delivery trials
Bringing dependable, daily drone logistics to UK communities where roads and ferries set the timetable.
Read morePatented VTOL clears 200 km autonomous mission with full payload
Twenty parcels, one charge, centimetre-precision arrival — proving the economics of rural-scale flight.
Read moreInvestors
Backed by Techstars.
IONA is a Techstars 2023 company — backed by a global network that helps deep-tech founders turn breakthrough hardware into operating businesses.
2023
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Start where the problem
is sharpest.
Tell us about the route, the cargo and the community you need to reach. We'll show you what minutes — instead of hours — looks like for your network.
One stack. Full autonomy. Your brand.