senseFly
Swiss maker of the eBee family of fixed-wing mapping drones, now a subsidiary of US-listed EagleNXT whose aircraft are sold under the parent brand.
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senseFly builds fixed-wing mapping aircraft — the eBee family — used for land survey, cadastral mapping, agriculture, mining, and public safety. It was founded in 2009 at Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, and for most of its history it was the hardware half of a Swiss mapping pair with Pix4D: both EPFL-adjacent, both bought into by Parrot in 2012.
That arrangement ended in 2021. Parrot sold senseFly to the US company AgEagle Aerial Systems in a deal announced on 18 October 2021 and valued at $23 million. AgEagle rebranded itself EagleNXT on 11 September 2025, keeping its NYSE ticker UAVS. senseFly SA still exists as a Swiss legal entity — EagleNXT names it as the subsidiary holding its ISO 9001:2015 certification — and the Swiss production line still runs. What no longer exists is the brand. The old sensefly.com domain redirects to the parent’s site, the aircraft are marketed as EagleNXT eBee products, and “senseFly” now surfaces mainly in certification footnotes.
Aircraft
The current line is narrower than it was: eBee X for general mapping, eBee TAC and eBee TAC Public Safety for government, tactical and first-responder work, and eBee VISION, a small ISR aircraft for real-time situational awareness. The eBee Geo and eBee SQ variants that once anchored the surveying and agriculture ranges are no longer listed on the parent’s product pages.
Financial position
senseFly does not report separately. EagleNXT posted second-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.7 million, roughly double the $1.4 million of the prior quarter but down from $4.1 million in the second quarter of 2025, at a 50.6% gross margin. Cash was $15.9 million at 30 June 2026, against $29.5 million at the end of 2025. That is a very small company consuming cash. In January 2026 EagleNXT moved its headquarters from Wichita to Allen, Texas, and stood up a US production line for the eBee VISION alongside consolidated MicaSense sensor manufacturing; the company says the Texas plant complements rather than replaces the Swiss line.
Why it matters
senseFly did something genuinely early. It made fixed-wing mapping drones a normal professional tool, and the eBee-plus-Pix4D workflow was close to a default in land administration and infrastructure survey for the better part of a decade. European manufacturing remains an asset in US and allied government procurement, where Chinese-made airframes are restricted.
But what is left has narrowed to a product line inside a parent with $2.7 million of quarterly revenue and falling cash, whose emphasis has moved toward ISR, counter-drone, and US-built sensors. senseFly today is best understood as the origin of the eBee aircraft rather than as a company with an independent commercial identity.
