About us
We're pilots. Like you.
The pilot community itself is building Quetza, not some company watching from outside. It was missing, and no one else was going to build it.
Phase
Pre-launch
Flying
FPV and stabilised
Where the name comes from
Derivation chain · Nahuatl
01
Quetzalli
“Precious feather.” The three words that follow are built literally on this root: the bird, the feathered serpent and Quetza itself.
02
Quetzaltōtōtl
The quetzal bird: the feather with wings.
03
Quetzalcóatl
The feathered serpent of wind and sky.
04
Quetza
The community flying today. The chain ends here.
We could've slapped on any generic English word, like a lot of drone projects do. We went looking for a root that's actually from here instead: a Mexican reference to what flying already meant, long before drones existed.
What you're looking at
01
Head-on
A feathered serpent looking straight at you. The real reference, no generic tech icon or stylized drone standing in for it.
02
The feathers
Quetzalli, precious feather: something valuable, that flies, that deserves to be properly looked after.
03
The wind jewel
The ehecailacacozcatl motif of Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl, lord of the wind. Real heritage, not ornament.
The real problem
Flying a drone in Mexico is a scattered experience, whether you fly an FPV rig you built yourself or a factory stabilised drone. There was no space bringing pilots together and no voice representing them to anyone.
State today
How it feels
What we're building
Scattered
WhatsApp groups that appear and vanish, pilots isolated in loose channels.
United community
Contradictory
Regulation information that changes depending on who you ask.
Reliable information
Alone
If an authority stops you one day, you sort it out on your own.
Common voice
The app is the tool. The goal is for drone flying to be taken seriously.
This is not a promise
Every pilot in the counter answered the survey with their real account. That's how the number grows.
Pilots in the registry
Who's behind it
Founder
Luis Durán
Pilot from the community
Why he started
Because it happened to him: flying without knowing if he was allowed, asking around and getting three different answers.
Whose it is
The trade that needs it, not one single person.
If you fly, this is yours too.
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