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Company

A Swedish aircraft company with a short supply chain.

Adelt builds autonomous vertical take-off aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Our systems are flown by coast guards, emergency services and armed forces to watch over coastlines, borders and critical infrastructure. We design, build and test everything in Sweden.

The company was founded by engineers from the Swedish aerospace and marine industries. We fly every week from our own test site on the west coast. Airframes, autopilot and ground station are developed and assembled in-house; we buy sensors and radios from European and allied suppliers.

Houses on a rocky shore on the Swedish west coast at dusk
Fig. 1The west coast, where we fly every week58°02′N 11°29′E

Team

Six people who have all stood on the airfield.

  • Portrait of Elin Sandberg

    Elin Sandberg

    CEO and co-founder

    Previously programme manager for maritime surveillance systems. Holds a commercial pilot licence.

  • Portrait of Johan Lindqvist

    Johan Lindqvist

    CTO and co-founder

    Fifteen years in flight control software for crewed and uncrewed aircraft. Wrote the first version of the Adelt autopilot.

  • Portrait of Sara Nyström

    Sara Nyström

    Head of flight test

    Runs the west-coast test site and every campaign on it. Former test engineer in the automotive industry.

  • Portrait of Amina Khalil

    Amina Khalil

    Head of operations and compliance

    Export control, quality and customer deliveries. Previously in a Swedish defence prime’s trade compliance team.

  • Portrait of Erik Holm

    Erik Holm

    Head of airframe

    Composite structures and propulsion. Built racing yachts before he built aircraft.

  • Portrait of Daniel Nguyen

    Daniel Nguyen

    Autopilot software lead

    Navigation without satellites, sensor fusion and the release process. Joined from a robotics startup.

Responsible use

What our systems do, and what they never do.

Our aircraft find, classify and report. They do not carry weapons and do not act on a target. A person decides what happens with every detection.

We sell to governments and agencies of EU and NATO member states and their close partners, and to operators of critical infrastructure in those countries. We do not sell to private individuals. Every export is licensed by the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products.

Published June 2026. Reviewed annually.

Compliance

Export control, components and data.

Origin
Designed, built and tested in Sweden, a NATO member state.
Export control
Subject to Swedish export control through the Inspectorate of Strategic Products, and to EU Regulation 2021/821 for dual-use items. Some requests cannot be fulfilled.
Component origin
No flight-critical electronics from suppliers outside the EU, EEA, UK, US, Canada, Japan, South Korea or Australia.
Data residency
Flight data and video are processed on the ground station and stored only where the customer chooses, inside the EU by default.
Human control
Systems find, classify and report. A person decides what happens next.

Adelt's products are controlled items under Swedish law. Export, transfer and in some cases demonstration outside Sweden require a licence from the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP). Dual-use items are additionally subject to EU Regulation 2021/821. Enquiries from outside the EU and NATO are handled accordingly, and some requests cannot be fulfilled.

Adelt's products have not been approved or endorsed by any government agency except where a specific approval is stated with its reference.