SkyTech Drones Services NZ Ltd

Skytech Services Profile

Skytech Drone Services is the first in New Zealand to provide specialist aerial services nationally to the agricultural and commercial sectors using state-of-the-art drone technology. With combined international commercial aviation experience of nearly 60 years, Franchisors Mark Lusby and Glen Daniel, both Kiwis, are uniquely placed to support new Franchisees in a potentially huge and lucrative market served by less efficient, older systems.

Skytech founder Mark Lusby has worked in the aviation industry for 30 years and is currently a Boeing 747 flight simulator instructor for Cathay Pacific. Having grown up on a dairy farm in South Auckland, Mark brings grassroots knowledge of the agriculture and farming sector to Skytech and his vast experience as an instructor is being used to develop comprehensive training programmes for Skytech Franchisees.

Glen Daniel has over 14,000 hours of flight time amassed over 29 years in aviation. For 20 years, he has flown internationally for Cathay Pacific, the past 9 as Senior Captain on Boeing 777 and 747-8 aircraft. Glen has a long-term interest in radio-controlled aviation and has been flying drones for the last 7 years providing invaluable insight for Franchisees.

Skytech has national distribution rights for BROUAV drones which are at the forefront of this rapidly developing and exciting new technology. This gives Franchisees the unequalled opportunity to develop their own business as further technological advances in drone engineering and capability are released.

What Skytech Offers Clients

There is a multitude of tasks that drones can undertake easily and efficiently in the agricultural and commercial sectors, including:

• Precision application of fertilizers and chemical treatments
• Weed spraying
• Vineyard and orchard frost protection
• Crop health
• Canopy clearing and UV application
• Commercial and agricultural cleaning eg. glasshouses, outbuildings
• Roof cleaning and treating, including solar panels
• Public area sanitization, including schools
• Waterway weed control
• Surveying
• Commercial window cleaning

Compared to traditional methods, drones use up to 90% less water and can generate up to 30% savings in treatment usage. Spraying can be done in a fraction of the time with coverage of around 18ha per hour, meaning savings for both Franchisee and the client.

There are a wide range of potential clients for Franchisees to approach, not least of all farmers & agricultural consortia, commercial agricultural producers, local government and councils, schools, and a variety of property owners from private residences to major commercial ventures.

There is already significant interest in this hugely exciting and novel business opportunity. Territories are available throughout New Zealand, but you need to contact us now so as not to miss out, as a number are presently under discussion with interested operators.

• Very little or no competition
• Conservative budgeting and work forecasts 26 weeks per year, 4 hrs per day
• Future expansion work add-ons - vertical wash, imaging
• Sole distributor of BroUAV - better buying power - cheaper lease rates passed on to you.
• Corporate rates for Insurances and vehicle leases
• Nationwide Brand - easier to secure attractive Government contracts
• North and South Island service centres - reduced scheduled maintenance downtime and quicker repairs.