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Windracers Limited

Windracers Essential Air Mail & Parcel Delivery Drones

Windracers Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2018.

CRN
11216986
Founded
2018
Age
8

Overview

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Legal name
WINDRACERS LIMITED
Region
Unknown
Registered address
5TH FLOOR
167-169 GREAT PORTLAND STREET
LONDON
ENGLAND
W1W 5PF
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 06 Jun 2026 16:52

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Company Active LTD
Windracers Limited
CRN 11216986
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Direct and ultimate controller Active LTD

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
47

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
06 Mar
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

31 Dec
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

20 Feb
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Mar
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

21 Feb
2025

Confirmation Statement With Updates

Confirmation-statement

CS01 | Transaction MzQ1NTk2NTk3NmFkaXF6a2N4

Published 21 Feb 2025 10:38

21 Feb
2025

Change Person Director Company With Change Date

Officers

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Published 21 Feb 2025 09:17

21 Feb
2018

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

3 entries

Company description

Windracers provides air cargo logistics services using drones.

Windracers manufactures and operates self-flying cargo aircraft for logistics and transportation purposes.

UAV company for large UAV food aid delivery

Project impact

World leading UAV technology

Windracers
2018
Windracers Limited
2018
WINDRACERS LIMITED
2018

Public funding

8 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2022, 2025
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2025 Collaborative R&D

SATE: Highlands & Islands Regional Pathway to Sustainable Aviation

1 Sep 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£63,000
Total cost £90,000

The Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) project will deliver a Regional Sustainable Aviation Strategy for the Highlands & Islands. This will establish a roadmap for new technologies to enter service in the region and quantify the commercial and social benefits that the improved connectivity will deliver. The Highlands and Islands region accounts ...

2022 Collaborative R&D

Sustainable Aviation Test Environment 2

1 Jul 2022 to 30 Jun 2024

Awarded
£5,209,988
Total cost £7,442,840

Based at Kirkwall Airport in the Orkney Islands, the Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) is the UK's first low-carbon aviation test centre embedded at a commercial airport. SATE brings together an international consortium of industry partners, public sector bodies and academia who will work with a range of regional businesses and stakeholders to ...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Protecting Environments with UAV Swarms

1 Jul 2022 to 30 Jun 2024

Awarded
£3,317,158
Total cost £4,738,796

Windracers, Distributed Avionics, British Antarctic Survey, University of Bristol, The University of Sheffield, Helix Technologies and Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service are working together to develop a live demonstration for uncrewed aerial survey problems. The Windracers ULTRA uncrewed platform has undergone several trials where it was used to carry carg...

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Swarm technology and digital twinning to enable coordination and utilisation of high numbers of 100kg payload UAVs in aid delivery and firefighting applications

1 Dec 2020 to 31 Aug 2022

Awarded
£109,288
Total cost £156,126

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to become a reality for civil applications such as the transport of goods, aid delivery, or firefighting. The ULTRA unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Windracers is currently being tested to transport COVID-19 medical supplies to the Isle of Wight for example. It is a large, double engine, fix win...

2020 Collaborative R&D

UAV/Drone COVID19 Emergency Airbridge to the Isles of Scilly

1 Dec 2020 to 31 Mar 2021

Awarded
£107,970
Total cost £134,962

Cuts to Isles of Scilly ferry and air services due to the on-going Covid-19 crises is hindering medical and other logistics services. Our consortia, led by DronePrep and supported by Windracers, University of Southampton and Consortiq propose to utilise the Windracers ULTRA UAV platform to deliver a range of payloads as required by the Council of the Isle...

2020 Collaborative R&D

Sustainable Aviation Test Environment

1 Nov 2020 to 31 Jul 2022

Awarded
£264,600
Total cost £378,000

This Orkney Island -based, innovative project will create the UK's first low-carbon aviation test environment, based at a licenced island airport with all year round scheduled air service operations to UK, and regular off-shore oil and gas helicopter traffic. The Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) will be a UK first and, should one or more of th...

2020 BIS-Funded Programmes

Project SCAFFold (Safety Critical Avionics for Future Flight)

1 Sep 2020 to 28 Feb 2022

Awarded
£55,652
Total cost £111,303

In order to deal with key challenges facing mankind, the future of aviation must change radically. Reduction of emissions, more electric aircraft, and autonomous systems are essential to meet these challenges. Autonomous drones will be increasingly used for commercial applications such as delivery of medicines, remote community logistics, and electric pow...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Performance of UAV flights to Isles of Scilly to mainland Cornwall for NHS Logistics

1 Jul 2020 to 31 Dec 2020

Awarded
£49,751
Total cost £49,751

The Windracers ULTRA UAV platform has been developed to move upto 100 kg of payload over 1,000 km, and can therefore support communities in the UK where existing NHS logistical links are challenging. Either due to islands separated from mainland transport infrastructure or remote locations due to topography.Existing transport links to the Isles of Scilly ...

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies