DMR Technologies Unveils the Monty, America’s First Hexa-Rotor Personal eVTOL, with Pre-Orders Opening this Fall
DMR Technologies unveils the Monty, an American-built hexa-rotor personal eVTOL, at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 in Detroit. Pre-orders open this fall at monty.aero.
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The Lafayette, Louisiana-built hexa-rotor eVTOL debuts publicly at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 in Detroit, marking the arrival of American-made personal aviation
DETROIT / LAFAYETTE, La. — May 2026 — DMR Technologies, Inc., the American drone manufacturer behind the Field Ranger X50, D313, D.A.R.T., and M.A.R.I.S platforms, last week unveiled the Monty — a personal eVTOL designed, engineered, and assembled in the United States. The Monty made its global debut at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 at Huntington Place in Detroit, where it drew sustained attention from industry, government, and media throughout the four-day event.
Pre-orders will open publicly in the fall of 2026 at monty.aero.
“We didn’t want to launch the Monty on just any day,” said David Wang, CEO and co-founder of DMR Technologies. “The XPONENTIAL event felt like the right moment to introduce an American-made personal aircraft to the world. Everything about the Monty — where it’s designed, where it’s built, what it’s made of — reflects what American manufacturing can still be.”
The Platform
The Monty is a hexa-rotor personal eVTOL with an 8.5-foot airframe built for single-occupant autonomous flight. It is designed around three principles: reliability, simplicity, and American .