AVSS (Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions) has manufactured more than 2,000 drone components and systems so far in its current fiscal year, the Fredericton, New Brunswick company announced today. That figure already exceeds the company’s full-year production total from the previous fiscal year, with several months still left on the calendar.

AVSS builds parachute recovery systems, motors, electronic speed controllers, FPV cameras, cold-weather ground control stations, guided aerial resupply systems, and avalanche mitigation hardware. Every one of those products is designed, engineered, and manufactured in Canada. The company says roughly 75% of its commercial revenue this fiscal year has come from international markets, with products now operating in more than 20 countries and distributed through a network of over 70 partners worldwide.

AVSS Built Its Business on Owning the IP, Not Assembling Someone Else’s

AVSS keeps product development, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and quality assurance entirely in Canada rather than outsourcing or licensing foreign technology, a distinction the company leans on heavily in its own messaging. “Off-the-shelf assembly and licensing agreements can create short-term opportunities, [but] sustainable economic growth comes from owning and continually advancing the underlying intellectual property,” the company said in its announcement.

DroneXL has covered AVSS for years, mostly through its Parachute Recovery System (PRS) line built for DJI‘s enterprise fleet. AVSS completed ASTM F3322-24a testing for the DJI M30 Series in March 2025, clearing a path for legal flight over people. It followed that with the PRS-M4S system for the DJI Matrice 4 Series in January 2025 and the PRS-M4DT for DJI Dock 3 and Matrice 4D a month later. In February this year, AVSS ran its first live avalanche drone testing in Jasper National Park, part of the Precision Avalanche Management System (PAMS) it introduced last year.

Founder Ties Growth to Keeping Manufacturing at Home

Josh Ogden, CEO of AVSS, credited the milestone to the company’s manufacturing team rather than any single product launch. “Manufacturing more than 2,000 systems year-to-date is an exciting milestone, but what it really represents is the exceptional work of our growing manufacturing team,” Ogden said. “We’ve already exceeded the production of every previous fiscal year while continuing to design, engineer, and manufacture a diverse product portfolio here in Canada.”

AVSS was founded in 2017 and shipped its first drone products in 2020. It now describes itself as the largest Canadian exporter of drone components and solutions, with products flying in more than 35 countries across commercial, public safety, military, and government fleets. In 2026 alone, the company added its Flying Beehive line for air-launched FPV drones, on top of the motors, ESCs, cameras, and ground control stations it already builds.

DroneXL’s Take

A production milestone press release is usually skippable. This one is worth a beat because of who’s writing it and when. AVSS makes the parts that let the highest-value commercial drones (DJI’s Matrice line, mostly) fly over people and cities legally under ASTM F3322. That’s boring, unglamorous, unsexy hardware. It’s also exactly the kind of hardware that keeps working no matter which government is currently mad at which drone manufacturer.

DJI’s fight with U.S. regulators has eaten most of the oxygen in this industry for the past year. AVSS is the reminder that the supply chain around DJI hardware, the parachutes, the ESCs, the ground stations, doesn’t live in China and doesn’t depend on Shenzhen’s next move. A Canadian company building safety-critical parts for DJI’s enterprise fleet, and now diversifying into its own drone components entirely, is a hedge that looks smarter every time the FCC Covered List conversation flares back up.

Worth watching: whether AVSS keeps expanding beyond parachutes and avalanche systems into full drone platforms of its own, rather than staying a Tier 2 supplier to everyone else’s fleet.

Source: AVSS

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