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Aviation Wing
Three branches, one air component. KDT flies fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft as an integrated capability. People and proprietary technology putting reach, mobility, and persistent eyes over any objective, from open ocean to contested ground.
Fixed-Wing
We cover the distance others can't.
KDT's fixed-wing branch handles the long hauls. We run persistent ISR, move people and cargo over theater distances, patrol coastlines, relay encrypted comms, and pull casualties out across whole regions, flying from paved runways or dirt strips cut out of nowhere. Small crews, the right airframe, and sensor payloads that turn one aircraft into hours of coverage over the target.
Long-Range ISR
One airframe holds station over a target area for hours, pushing full-motion video, signals, and imagery back to the ground team in real time.
Personnel & Cargo
We move personnel, principals, and mission loads across distances rotary-wing can't cover on a single leg.
Maritime Patrol
Wide-area ocean surveillance for counter-trafficking, fisheries protection, and vessel tracking, with sensors tuned to pick small craft out of open water.
Communications Relay
The aircraft becomes an airborne node, extending encrypted voice and data to ground elements working past line of sight.
Aeromedical Evacuation
Configured for medical transport, we stabilize and move casualties between theaters with a care team aboard.
Austere Field Operations
Short-field takeoff and landing on unimproved strips lets us launch and recover where there's no runway, no tower, and no support.
Representative platforms: Twin-turboprop ISR aircraft, STOL utility transports, and multi-engine maritime patrol platforms.
Rotary-Wing
Where the road ends, we fly.
KDT's rotary-wing element puts personnel, casualties, and cargo where fixed-wing can't reach and the road runs out. We fly air assault insertion and extraction, medical evacuation, executive lift, and shipboard approaches into the same austere and contested ground our teams already work. Small crews, hardened airframes, and onboard systems that let us launch fast and stay flying through weather that grounds most operators.
Air Assault Insertion
We land or fast-rope small teams onto rooftops, ridgelines, and unimproved sites, then hold on-station for immediate extraction under fire.
CASEVAC & MEDEVAC
Configured airframes move the wounded from the point of injury to surgical care with a flight medic working the patient the whole way.
Executive Air Transport
Discreet rotor lift for principals and negotiators, routed around ground threats and choke points with a protective detail already aboard.
Sling-Load & Fast-Rope
External cargo, resupply, and heavy gear delivered by hook; personnel delivered by rope when there's no place to set down.
Shipboard Operations
Deck landings, hoist recovery, and vessel approaches at sea, day or night, off moving platforms in a rolling sea state.
Degraded Visual Flight
Crews trained and equipped to fly brownout, fog, smoke, and blackout conditions that stop other aviation on the ramp.
Representative platforms: Utility, medium-lift, and light-observation rotorcraft: UH-60-class, Bell 412/212, Airbus H125, and MD 530-type airframes.
Unmanned Systems
Persistent eyes. Small footprint. No blind spots.
KDT's Aviation Wing runs unmanned aircraft as organic small-team assets. Our people own the airframe end to end, launching, flying, and reading the take themselves, which puts persistent eyes over the objective from the moment they step off. Every feed runs through KDT's AI threat-detection stack, so the picture reaching the ground team is already sorted, tagged, and prioritized.
Persistent Overwatch
We hold a sensor over a fixed site or a moving element for the length of the mission, handing off between airframes so the feed never goes dark.
Real-Time ISR
Live full-motion video and sensor data push straight to the team lead and command, so calls get made off current ground truth.
Convoy & Route Overwatch
Drones scout ahead of vehicle movement and screen the flanks, flagging choke points, disabled vehicles, and ambush ground before the convoy reaches it.
Counter-UAS
We detect, track, and defeat hostile drones threatening a site or a principal, closing the slice of airspace a small team can't watch on its own.
Comms Relay
A loitering airframe carries encrypted comms past terrain and range limits, keeping dismounted teams connected in dead ground and over the horizon.
Battle-Damage Assessment
After an action, we put a sensor back over the objective to confirm effects, account for personnel, and document the ground before anyone re-enters.
Representative platforms: Small vertical-lift quadcopters, fixed-wing ISR drones, and man-portable loitering systems.
Fly for KDT
Rated pilots, aircrew, flight medics, and drone pilots with real hours: we're hiring across every branch of the wing. Bring the logbook.