Taz Drone Solutions

10/11/2026

Our Founder and CEO, Andrew Davies, is heading to the Gold Coast this week for Global Drone 2026, 11–13 November at Cbus Super Stadium.

Andrew will be on two panels:
- Thursday 12 November, 2:30–3:30pm Queensland time, Room 2 — Natural Disaster Response and Search & Rescue
- Friday 13 November, 2:30–3:30pm Queensland time, Room 2 — Mining, Construction and Asset Management

If you're at the event, go and say g'day.

04/11/2026

Where TDS Vhagar's at.

TDS Vhagar is our multi-role heavy-lift drone, designed and built here in Sheffield by TDS Labs. It's been a busy few months:

🔥 Fuel reduction burning. This season we've been supporting Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service with a planned burn around Strahan, and we ran a burn in the Tasmanian Highlands as well where we burned around 30 hectares of button grass plains.

⛏️ Mining. We're testing TDS Vhagar carrying and placing our tripods, so it can take on the same job our Prismo crews do on pit walls: getting monitoring tripods in place with no one near the face.

🏋️ Payload testing. The TDS Labs team has been flying the latest version at our test site with loads of up to 25 kg, working through the flight data after every session.

🌏 XPRIZE. TDS Vhagar flew alongside our BFD when we hosted the XPRIZE Wildfire judges in Sheffield, and as part of AURA Foresight we finished third in the world this year.

Big thanks to our engineering and flight testing crews for all the hours in the paddock. More to come.



Talk to the team: 0459 352 746
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02/11/2026

At TDS Labs in Sheffield, Tasmania, we design, develop, build, test and commercialise our own end-to-end aircraft in-house.

Every aircraft we put into the field goes through a meticulous engineering and testing process — from structural design, CNC machining, carbon layup and avionics integration in the workshop, right through to tethered flight trials and live operational proving in the field.

We're fortunate to have a fantastic team of engineers working alongside our operational pilots under one roof, with a real dedication to pushing the frontier of what heavy-lift uncrewed aircraft can do.

Designed, built and flight-tested in Sheffield, Tasmania, from the Arc right through to our BFD and the Roc.



Talk to the team: 0459 352 746
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29/10/2026

We've got a drone training course running in Sheffield at the moment.

After nine years in the drone space, we're very proud to still be training, and very proud to help Tasmanians get their drone pilot's licence.

Want to fly drones for work? It starts with the right licence.

At TDS we run CASA-certified drone pilot training in collaboration with Global Drone Solutions, delivered in person in Sheffield and Hobart.

Our training packages run over 5 days, with at least 5 hours of hands-on flying plus theory and practical assessments:
- Standard: Remote Pilot Licence (RePL) and Aeronautical Radio Operator Certificate (AROC)
- Advanced: adds the Multirotor 7–25 kg Endorsement
- Professional: adds Chief Remote Pilot and a Remote Operator's Certificate (ReOC), for anyone starting their own drone business
- Enterprise: for businesses offering advanced drone services

New to drones? Our beginner course covers CASA rules, safe operation, pre- and post-flight checks and battery management before you commit to a licence.

Already licensed? Ask us about advanced endorsements and the RePL annual refresher.

Thanks to Global Drone Solutions for our continued partnership, and to Scott Reeman for all the continued great work and training you're doing.



Book a course or ask a question: 0459 352 746
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28/10/2026

A lot can happen in a year.

In one year at TDS in Sheffield, we went from clearing and tidying up the land behind the house we purchased and craning in shipping containers, to:
✅ Finishing our new Sheffield workshop
✅ Hot sealing and clearing out around the workshop
✅ Building the fence out the front to join the properties together
✅ Renovating the house
✅ Moving manufacturing equipment into the old Jaspa Joinery workshop to scale up our manufacturing

We love the Sheffield community. We're really passionate about making the town look better and helping the community move forward, and we're proud to be building TDS right here, including TDS Labs, our engineering and manufacturing arm.

It wasn't that long ago we had 3 staff and 5 printers in a single office space building drones in the Davies building.

Here's to the next year in Sheffield.



Talk to the team: 0459 352 746
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27/10/2026

We're heading to Cleveland, QLD this week for PENTA Australia's Open Day on Thursday 29 October.

At 11:30 AM at 45 Enterprise Street, Cleveland QLD, our founder Andrew Davies and our Taz Drone Solutions COO Jeremy Gralton will be on the ground joining PENTA Managing Director François-Regis Divet for a live demonstration with our aircraft fitted with the PENTA voltage detector.

If you work across transmission, distribution networks or substations, come down and see how our Tasmanian-built fleet is taking crews out of harm's way on live-line and network tasks — from non-contact voltage detection and bird diverter installation with the Arc through to heavy-lift conductor stringing with our BFD.

📍 PENTA Australia — 45 Enterprise Street, Cleveland QLD
📅 Thursday 29 October (live demo at 11:30 AM)

If you're in South East Queensland and want to catch up with Andrew and Jeremy on the day, get in touch:



Talk to the team: 0459 352 746
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27/10/2026

We're a finalist for Outstanding Business at the DCCI Business Excellence Awards.

TDS started in Sheffield and the North West Coast is still home. It's where we design, build and test our aircraft before they head out to sites around Australia.

Being recognised by our local business community means a lot. Everyone at TDS has had a hand in getting us here, from the workshop floor to the crews out on site.

Thanks to the DCCI for the recognition and to the Commonwealth Bank for sponsoring the category. Congratulations to the other finalists too.

Fingers crossed for the awards night.

23/10/2026

Four generations of planned burning in the Tasmanian Highlands — only the tools have changed.

My great-grandfather walked these lines lighting up with twists of paper.
My grandfather did the hard yards carrying firelighters in a wire mesh basket.
Dad spent decades walking the scrub with a hand-held drip torch.

Recently, we took the next step forward together — flying TDS Vhagar to carry out precision aerial ignition by drone across the country our family has looked after for generations.

Instead of hours on foot through steep, rough bush with a drip torch, we can place ignition points from the air with pinpoint control, keeping people out of harm's way while working with the wind, terrain, and moisture just as our family always has.

The gear looks a bit different to a roll of paper or a wire basket, but the respect for fire, country, and timing hasn't changed — and neither has the cold b**r with Dad once the job's done.

13/06/2026

13/06/2026