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 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 .
The Monty is designed for operators, early adopters, and institutions who want personal aerial mobility built by a company with a real manufacturing operation, a proven product track record, and the autonomous platforms that resonate with its customer base. It’s flagship spray drone, the Field Ranger X50, operates on a similar flight control system and is fully autonomous as well. John Deere dealerships across the south and mid-south have been great partners as DMR continues to put its technology in the hands of farmers and applicators throughout the U.S.
The full public launch this fall will include a formal pricing announcement, delivery timeline for early reservation holders, and a live unveil event. Reservation holders who secured their place on the pre-order list at XPONENTIAL or at monty.aero will receive priority access to launch details ahead of the public announcement.
A $5,000 fully refundable deposit secures a reservation. Deposits will be opening this summer at monty.aero.
DMR Technologies operates manufacturing and production facilities in Lafayette, Louisiana, with engineering and R&D in Detroit, Michigan, and operations headquartered in Houston, Texas. Every platform DMR ships — from the Field Ranger X50 agricultural spray drone to the D.A.R.T. counter-UAS interceptor — is NDAA Section 848 compliant, meaning no components are sourced from restricted foreign vendors.
The Monty is built to the same standard.
“There are a lot of eVTOL concepts out there,” said Wang. “Most of them are renderings. The Monty flies very similar to how large agriculture spray drones fly. We revealed it in Detroit, not on a slide deck, and people could see the difference between a real product and a pitch. That’s what DMR does — we build things that are reliable and made to fly.”
DMR Technologies, Inc. is an American drone manufacturer and research company building unmanned and autonomous systems for agriculture, maritime, defense, and personal mobility. The company’s product lineup includes the Field Ranger X50 agriculture spray drone, the D313 industrial inspection platform, the M.A.R.I.S autonomous maritime vessel, the D.A.R.T. counter-UAS interceptor series, the Falcon 10 FPV platform, and the Monty personal eVTOL. All DMR platforms are NDAA Section 848 compliant and manufactured in the United States.
DMR Technologies is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with manufacturing in Lafayette, Louisiana, and engineering operations in Detroit, Michigan.
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