Startup Aims To Replace Banner-Towing Aircraft With Drones

Sustainable Skylines claims its drones will reduce the carbon footprint of traditional banner-towing aircraft by 90 percent.

Jack Daleo

Tuesday, May 09, 2023 at 04:19 PM ET

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A Sustainable Skylines drone drags a banner a few hundred feet off the ground. [Courtesy: Sustainable Skylines]

Key Takeaways:

Sustainable Skylines secured $1 million in funding to launch a drone-based aerial advertising service.
The company positions its drone service as a safer, more sustainable alternative to traditional banner towing, promising a 90% reduction in carbon footprint and offering campaign analytics.
This new drone service threatens pilots who rely on banner towing for accumulating flight hours and supplemental income, potentially pricing them out of the market as drone technology becomes more cost-effective.

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For pilots, banner towing is considered an easy way to accrue flight hours or make a little extra money between trips. But a new service could soon eat up some of those flights.

Miami-based Sustainable Skylines on Tuesday announced that it has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to support the initial launch of a drone-based advertising service, which it positions as a safer, more sustainable alternative to using airplanes.