DJI’s Matrice 5TD, the drone that lives inside the Dock 4 it launched on 14 October, appeared on the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s list of class-marked drones on 19 October. It carries two marks, C5 and C6. The C6 mark lets an operator fly it beyond the pilot’s sight on a simple declaration.
That flight sits under the EU’s standard scenario STS-02. The drone flies a pre-programmed route up to 1 km from the pilot, or 2 km with airspace observers, below 120 m and over a controlled ground area in a sparsely populated place. The operator declares the flight to its national authority and can start once the authority confirms the declaration is complete. No authorisation is needed.
DJI says Dock 4 swaps the drone’s battery automatically in 25 seconds. The company says that cuts the wait between flights from a 30-minute recharge to seconds. It gives the Matrice 5TD up to 59 minutes in the air and a top speed of 21 metres a second.
DJI pitches it to police, emergency services, security patrols and inspection crews as a drone that is always ready and launches on a remote command.
EU rules require a C6 drone to let the remote pilot terminate the flight and to stay inside a programmable volume. DJI says the Matrice 5TD’s termination system stops its propellers when triggered by hand or when the drone crosses its geocage.
The Matrice 4D and 4TD, the aircraft of DJI’s earlier Dock 3, already carry C6. The Matrice 5TD is the first drone DJI designed itself to appear on the list with C5, which covers flights within sight over a controlled area that can be in a town. Until now, C5 versions of DJI models came from Eurosafe Systems, which holds those entries in its own name.
The American market stays closed. The FCC added foreign-made drones to its Covered List on 22 December 2025 and names DJI in the list itself, so new DJI models cannot get the equipment authorisation they need to be sold in the US. DJI’s last US approval was the Avata 360, granted on 19 November 2025.
EASA’s entry gives no date or certificate number. DJI says Dock 4 is sold through its authorised enterprise dealers.
