{"id":819681,"date":"2026-07-22T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819681\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:59:24","slug":"canadian-drone-company-landing-zones-signs-partnership-deal-with-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819681\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian drone company Landing Zones signs partnership deal with Airbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 1:57PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 10:39AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Canadian drone company Landing Zones has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Airbus Defence and Space for advanced uncrewed aerial systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agreement includes an investment from Airbus and representation on Landing Zones\u2019 board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landing Zones will also serve as a dedicated representative for Airbus Defence and Space Services in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Financial terms of the agreement were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landing Zones founder and chief executive Spence Fraser says the investment accelerates the company\u2019s threat emulation technologies focused on modern drone threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Airbus deal follows an investment in Landing Zones by the Business Development Bank of Canada\u2019s StrongNorth Fund in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 1:57PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 22, 2026 at 10:39AM EDT TORONTO \u2014 Canadian drone company Landing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45,49,48,46,295,1688,66],"class_list":["post-819681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-manufacturing","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}