Black Swan

1. 5

   Regulator-cleared or mass market

   A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.

2. 4

   Paying customers

   Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.

3. 3

   Pilot

   Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.

4. 2

   Pre-orders

   Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.

5. 1

   Demo onlyThis robot

   Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

   Placed by: Malta's aviation authority gave Dronamics an EU Light UAS Operator Certificate, which lets it approve its own Black Swan flights across EU countries (25 May 2022).

   No pre-order, pilot, paying customer or clearance is on record yet.

   Held at this stage: Malta's 2022 certificate approves Dronamics as a drone operator, not routine Black Swan flights. On our record the Black Swan has flown only test flights and has not carried paid cargo.

What we couldn't confirm. We could not confirm that the Black Swan has ever flown paid cargo. Its 2026 defence version was still at an early demonstration stage.