Our Story

WingSmith Drones started in 2024 with two people, a workbench, a lot of late nights, and a shared belief that getting into FPV shouldn’t feel impossible.

We’re Carmen and Richard — a husband-and-wife team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At the time WingSmith began, we were balancing work, family life, big dreams, and the very real pressure of trying to build something meaningful from the ground up.

Richard has always been the builder. With an engineering background and a love for solving technical problems, he was drawn to FPV because it combines design, electronics, mechanics, tuning, and performance in one incredibly satisfying machine. Carmen came at it from the other side: customer experience, support, organization, creativity, and a deep desire to make complicated things feel less intimidating for people.

Together, we saw the same problem from two different angles.

FPV is amazing — but getting started can be overwhelming.

There are endless parts to research, compatibility questions to figure out, firmware settings to understand, batteries to safely manage, goggles and controllers to choose, and then the looming fear of crashing something you barely know how to fix.

For a lot of people, the excitement is there. The curiosity is there. The dream of flying is there.

But the path into the hobby feels confusing, expensive, and honestly kind of intimidating.

We knew there had to be a better way.

WingSmith Drones was created to make high-quality FPV more accessible without turning it into something watered down, disposable, or generic. We wanted to build real FPV drones with premium components, thoughtful customization, and strong performance — but pair them with the kind of support we wished more people had when starting out.

Richard leads the technical side of WingSmith: build design, component selection, assembly, tuning, testing, and making sure every drone is built with care instead of rushed through like a mass-produced product.

Carmen focuses on the customer experience: making the process easier to understand, building out WingSmith Academy, helping pilots feel supported, and making sure the person opening the box knows they are not on their own.

Every WingSmith drone is built with that balance in mind.

Quality and approachability.
Performance and support.
Customization and clarity.
Serious components without the gatekeeping.

We started WingSmith because we wanted to create more than just another drone company. We wanted to build a place where people could enter FPV with confidence, ask questions without feeling embarrassed, customize something that feels like theirs, and know that if they crash, break something, or get stuck, there is a real person ready to help.

That support piece matters to us.

FPV drones crash. Parts break. Repairs happen. That is part of the hobby. But breaking something shouldn’t mean you are left alone in a maze of forums, acronyms, and guesswork.

That’s why WingSmith includes guided onboarding through WingSmith Academy, practical repair support, and lifetime repair service eligibility for WingSmith-built drones. We want our customers to feel supported not just on day one, but through the full journey of learning, flying, crashing, repairing, and getting better.

As a Canadian-owned company, every WingSmith drone is designed, assembled, and tested here in Canada using carefully selected components and a hands-on, quality-first approach.

We are not trying to be the biggest drone company in the world.

We are trying to build something more personal than that.

A company rooted in craftsmanship, trust, creativity, and real support. A company where the people building your drone actually care about whether you feel confident flying it.

WingSmith was born from our own need to build something meaningful — something that combined Richard’s engineering precision with Carmen’s passion for creating a better, more human customer experience.

What started at our workbench has grown into a company built around one simple idea:

Learning to fly should feel exciting, not intimidating.

Every WingSmith drone is Forged for Flight — and supported for the journey.