Same airframe.
Different mission.
How agencies, security teams, facilities, and schools put a small quad to work, and where the limits sit.
The premise
A small quad, flown well, answers a question fast.
Most of the work below is the same flight: get an aircraft up, get a look at something, land, and act on what you saw. What changes is who is asking and what the answer is worth.
Every use case on this page is a job our published hardware can do today. Where a mission needs a payload, an approval, or a certification we do not have, the card says so. You should not find that out during a demo.
Public safety and government
When the overhead view changes the decision.
Agencies buy direct. Procurement, compliance posture, and the separate front door for legal process all live on the government page.
Law enforcement
A look from a hundred feet up before anyone commits to a plan.
- Overhead view of a structure or a scene before entry
- Photographing a crash or a scene as found, before it is cleared
- Perimeter awareness during a callout or a standoff
Daylight visual work. No thermal, spotlight, or loudspeaker payload ships today, and endurance is minutes per pack, not hours.
Crowd and event management
Density and flow seen from above instead of guessed at from the ground.
- Ingress and egress bottlenecks at gates and crossings
- Marshalling parades, races, and festival grounds
- A record of how a crowd actually moved, for the next event plan
Flying over people falls under Part 107 Subpart D. We have declared no means of compliance for Category 2 or 3 and make no Category 1 eligibility claim for any airframe, so a standoff plan or your own waiver comes first.
Fire, search, and rescue
Cover ground a crew would otherwise walk.
- Hasty search of terrain that is slow or unsafe on foot
- Size-up of a roof, a slope, or a shoreline before entry
- An overhead reference while a ground team works a grid
Visual, daytime, within line of sight. Thermal search is the common ask here and it is not something we sell.
Emergency management
Damage assessment while the picture is still changing.
- Post-storm survey of roads, roofs, and washouts
- A photo record for a damage claim or a state report
- Checking a site before crews are sent into it
Controlled airspace and temporary flight restrictions need authorization first. The aircraft does not arrange that for you.
Business and industry
Cheaper than a lift. Faster than a walk.
Security firms, property managers, contractors, and utilities fly the same platforms, usually to avoid sending a person somewhere slow or unpleasant.
Security patrol
Cover the gaps between fixed cameras.
- Alarm response faster than a guard can walk a perimeter
- Scheduled sweeps of yards, lots, and fence lines
- An overhead angle for the guard writing the incident report
Line of sight, one pilot per aircraft. There is no autonomous patrol mode, no docking station, and nothing that launches unattended.
Parking and facilities
The parts of a property nobody wants to walk at two in the morning.
- After-hours sweeps of decks, surface lots, and loading docks
- Roof, gutter, and light-pole checks without booking a lift
- Counting and mapping stalls before a striping or capacity plan
Use the ducted Scout 3 under a deck or a canopy. Open props and a low concrete ceiling are a bad combination.
Construction and survey
Progress you can show rather than describe.
- Weekly progress photos from a repeatable position
- As-built comparison against the plan set
- Stockpile, laydown, and site access checks
We ship the aircraft, not a photogrammetry pipeline. Bring the mapping software your team already uses.
Utilities and infrastructure
Get eyes on the asset without putting a person on it.
- Roof, tower, antenna, and solar array inspection
- Line-of-sight checks on a run before a truck rolls
- Documenting a fault for the crew that will fix it
Close work near energized equipment is a training and policy question long before it is an aircraft question.
Media and property marketing
Interiors and tight geometry on the same day as the exteriors.
- Walk-through shots through doorways and stairwells
- Exterior establishing shots of a property or a site
- Listing and marketing footage without a full crew day
Commercial work is Part 107 work. The remote pilot certificate is yours to hold.
Schools and campuses
Facilities work, drills, and a class that ends in a printed part.
Districts and campuses come to us for two unrelated reasons: the buildings need looking at, and the students need something real to build.
Facilities and grounds
Roofs, HVAC units, field drainage, fence lines, and gutters, checked without booking a lift or putting a maintenance tech on a ladder.
Drills and responder familiarization
Current overhead imagery of a campus for tabletop exercises, evacuation planning, and walking mutual-aid partners through a site they have never entered.
Athletics, events, and communications
Game film, band formations, and campus footage for admissions and district communications, shot by your own staff or student crew.
CTE and STEM programs
Frame kits, published board targets, and build manuals, plus Forge for a design unit that ends with a part a student modeled and printed.
This is not a student surveillance product.
There is no persistent overwatch mode, no docking station, no automated patrol, and no video service we host. Every flight has a pilot on the sticks and ends when the battery does. What a camera records goes to your storage under your retention policy, not to ours. If a vendor is pitching you continuous aerial monitoring of a campus, that is a different product from a different company.
Regardless of mission
What comes with every aircraft.
Signed firmware, published checksums
Every release carries a SHA-256 checksum on its download page, scoped per aircraft model and board target, so a fleet can prove what is running where.
Firmware feedFleet management with staged rollouts
Organizations manage aircraft as a fleet: staged firmware rollouts scoped to one organization, with an audit trail of what was pushed and when.
FleetForge for mission-specific parts
A sensor bracket, an arm guard, a mount for the one camera your team standardized on. Model it parametrically, export STL, print it. Nothing to install.
ForgeDesigned and fabricated in the US
Airframes and printed parts are designed, fabricated, and tested at our Canton, Ohio facility, not pulled from overseas stock.
AircraftBefore you shortlist us
What we do not claim.
Public safety buyers check these. An unearned claim is a lie with a paper trail, so here is the list in one place.
No thermal, spotlight, loudspeaker, or tethered payload is sold today. If a mission needs one, we are the wrong aircraft for it right now.
No declared means of compliance for Category 2 or 3 operations over people, no Category 1 eligibility claim, and no beyond visual line of sight waiver package.
Compliance referenceNo autonomous patrol, no docking station, no unattended launch. Every flight has a pilot on the sticks and lands when the pack does.
No hosted video. SpaltX operates no footage or streaming service, so what an aircraft records lives on your storage, under your retention policy.
No GSA schedule, ITAR registration, CMMC certification, or facility clearance. We sell direct and say plainly where we stand.
Government and defensePrinted parts are sold for prototyping, experimental, and hobby use. They are not certified for safety-critical aircraft.
Printed part ratings
Agencies and public safety
Tell us the program, the quantity, and the timeline, and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it. Legal process for user data goes somewhere else, and the government page has that address.
Business, facilities, and schools
Security firms, property managers, contractors, districts, and campuses. Describe the flights you expect to run and we will say which platform fits, or that none of them do.