Aloft Air Control
#1 FAA Approved LAANC USS
Free
Air Control is the new platform from Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk). Air Control is rebuilt from the ground up to bring new levels of automation and compliance to our industry-leading drone operations and airspace management solutions.
Air Control combines the best of our full-stack platform with next-gen tools for team, fleet, and airspace management with LAANC and UTM capabilities.
For advanced LAANC tools, fleet management tools, reporting, and other enterprise features, you can access the all-new web app at https://air.aloft.ai/.
For more information, see https://aloft.ai/air-control/.
To learn more about using your app within a team or organization, or to review our SOC2 and ISO27001 audits, please contact enterprise@aloft.ai.
For direct support, you can contact our team at any time at support@aloft.ai.
more This update brings several improvements to mission planning and flight logging. Missions can now be duplicated, making it faster to create new missions based on existing ones, and the mission creation experience has been refined with clearer upload status and easier access to mission actions. We’ve also upgraded the Battery Picker with Recents, My Batteries, and All Batteries sections, along with an improved experience across iPhone and iPad. Finally, manual flight logging now includes location, date, and duration controls directly in the app, making it easier to capture complete flight details without needing to make additional edits on the web. Thanks for flying with Air Control!
v3.1.2 19 hr ago
We've improved aircraft search, refreshed parts of the interface to align with the new Liquid Glass design, and resolved several crashes, along with a number of smaller fixes and refinements throughout the app, on both iPhone and iPad. Thanks for flying with Air Control. More improvements are on the way!
v3.1.1 30 Jul
We're proud to announce one of the most significant updates to Air Control yet — a complete update of the core experience.
This release brings a fully rebuilt Airspace screen, redesigned from the ground up for clarity and performance. The updated interface now embraces Apple's latest Liquid Glass aesthetic, and Air Control is now a true native iPad app — with a purpose-built layout that takes full advantage of the larger display, rather than simply scaling up the iPhone experience. We've also resolved a wide range of bugs throughout the app, making everything feel more polished and reliable.
v3.1.0 7 Jul
We’re thrilled to introduce two of our most requested features in this update—making your Aloft experience even more seamless and personalized.
This release adds support for biometric authentication, allowing you to stay signed in using Face ID or Touch ID, as well as localization for text and unit conversions. Together, these updates make it easier and more intuitive to use Aloft, no matter where you’re flying or how you access the app.
As always, we’ve included a handful of performance improvements and bug fixes to keep everything running smoothly.
We’re grateful for your continued feedback—it’s what helps us prioritize and build what matters most. Questions or ideas? Reach out anytime at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
v2.12.0 19/08/2025
We’re thrilled to introduce two of our most requested features in this update—making your Aloft experience even more seamless and personalized.
This release adds support for biometric authentication, allowing you to stay signed in using Face ID or Touch ID, as well as localization for text and unit conversions. Together, these updates make it easier and more intuitive to use Aloft, no matter where you’re flying or how you access the app.
As always, we’ve included a handful of performance improvements and bug fixes to keep everything running smoothly.
We’re grateful for your continued feedback—it’s what helps us prioritize and build what matters most. Questions or ideas? Reach out anytime at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
v2.11.0 29/07/2025
We’re excited to bring major improvements to the DJI in-flight experience in this update! Piloting with Aloft is now smoother, more responsive, and more intuitive than ever—giving you greater control and confidence while you fly.
From takeoff to landing, you’ll notice enhanced stability, refined joystick behavior, and a more seamless interface when managing camera and flight settings. We’ve also improved access to key features like photo and video capture, gimbal control, and media management—making it faster and easier to capture, review, and share your mission data right from the field.
Alongside these improvements, we’ve included several bug fixes and performance enhancements to keep everything running seamlessly.
A huge thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and feedback—it drives us forward every day. If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
v2.10.0 12/05/2025
We’re thrilled to introduce powerful upgrades to streaming in Aloft! This release brings smoother, more reliable streams and—by popular demand—the ability to broadcast streams directly from other apps, including live footage from your drone. Whether you’re sharing in real-time or monitoring remotely, streaming has never been this flexible.
Alongside these exciting features, we’ve included several bug fixes and performance enhancements to keep everything running seamlessly.
A huge thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and feedback—it drives us forward every day. If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
v2.9.0 18/03/2025
We’re excited to introduce dynamic font size support, ensuring a more personalized and accessible experience across the app. With this update, Aloft will automatically adjust to your preferred text size for improved readability and usability.
In addition to this enhancement, we’ve also made several bug fixes and performance improvements to keep everything running smoothly.
A heartfelt thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and feedback—it truly inspires and guides us. If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
2.8.1 21/01/2025
We’re thrilled to introduce native login and registration, making it faster and easier than ever to access Aloft. With this update, users can securely log in and register directly within the app, with support for Password AutoFill to enable seamless sign-ins.
A heartfelt thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and feedback, which is invaluable to us. If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, please reach out to our team at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
2.8.0 08/01/2025
We are excited to announce the addition of the Maintenance Logging feature, now accessible directly from the sidebar. With this update, users can effortlessly log and edit maintenance events, upload photos and documents, and manage maintenance events even when offline—all within the app!
A heartfelt thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and positive feedback. Your input is invaluable to us. Should you have any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
2.7.1 23/09/2024
We are excited to announce the addition of the Maintenance Logging feature, now accessible directly from the sidebar. With this update, users can effortlessly log and edit maintenance events, upload photos and documents, and manage maintenance events even when offline—all within the app!
A heartfelt thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and positive feedback. Your input is invaluable to us. Should you have any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
2.7 10/09/2024
We are excited to announce the addition of the Incident Logging feature, now accessible directly from the sidebar. With this update, users can effortlessly log and edit incidents, upload photos and documents, and manage incidents even when offline—all within the app!
A heartfelt thank you to the Aloft community for your continued support and positive feedback. Your input is invaluable to us. Should you have any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team at support@aloft.ai.
Thank you for flying Aloft!
2.6.0 12/08/2024
This release introduces historical Flight Logs and LAANC Authorizations accessible directly from the sidebar. Additionally, users can now open missions directly in the app via Air Control links, bypassing the web. Enjoy seamless navigation and enhanced functionality with these updates!
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.5.0 20/06/2024
This release enhances mission management by adding Tag Support, Mission Location Management and the ability to assign Custom Visual Observers. Additionally, our team has identified and fixed an issue introduced in 2.4.1 causing crashes on some devices.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission's status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You'll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We've also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.4.4 22/05/2024
This release enhances mission management by adding Tag Support, Mission Location Management and the ability to assign Custom Visual Observers. Additionally, our team has identified and fixed an issue introduced in 2.4.1 causing crashes on some devices.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission's status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You'll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We've also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.4.3 07/05/2024
This release enhances mission management by adding Tag Support, Mission Location Management and the ability to assign Custom Visual Observers. Additionally, our team has identified and fixed an issue introduced in 2.4.1 causing crashes on some devices.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission's status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You'll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We've also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.4.2 06/05/2024
This release enhances mission management by adding Tag Support, Mission Location Management and the ability to assign Custom Visual Observers. Additionally, our team has been working hard to continue to improve the performance and reliability our app. Many of those behind the scenes updates are included as well.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission's status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You'll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We've also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.4.1 30/04/2024
This release enhances mission management by adding Tag Support, Mission Location Management and the ability to assign Custom Visual Observers. Additionally, our team has been working hard to continue to improve the performance and reliability our app. Many of those behind the scenes updates are included as well.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission's status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You'll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We've also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.4.0 25/04/2024
This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission’s status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You’ll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We’ve also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.3.1 03/04/2024
This release adds mission management features for creating missions for a future time and location. You can also edit missions to update the mission’s status and add additional mission participants. Flight Sessions offer more flexibility when logging flights, checklists, and risk assessments. You’ll see new prompts to resume or start a new flight session. We’ve also improved offline support for flight logs, airspace, and downloading missions.
Thank you again to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.3.0 25/03/2024
First, thank you to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages we've received since the update last week. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
In this update, along with bug fixes and performance improvements, you'll find enhanced live streaming capabilities that tie into the air.aloft.ai web platform for secure, real-time communications. The live streaming supports all makes/models of drones. If you want access or a demo, you can reach out to our sales team at sales@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.2.7 06/11/2023
First, thank you to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages we've received since the update last week. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestions at any time at support@aloft.ai.
In this update, along with bug fixes and performance improvements, you'll find enhanced live streaming capabilities that tie into the air.aloft.ai web platform for secure, real-time communications. The live streaming supports all makes/models of drones. If you want access or a demo, you can reach out to our sales team at sales@aloft.ai.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.2.6 18/10/2023
First, thank you to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages we've received since the update last week. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestion at any time at support@aloft.ai.
To build on that momentum, in today's app update, you'll find performance improvements and bug fixes surrounding authentication.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.2.5 25/09/2023
First, thank you to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages we've received since the update last week. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestion at any time at support@aloft.ai.
To build on that momentum, in today's app update, you'll find performance improvements and bug fixes surrounding authentication.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.2.3 21/08/2023
First, thank you to the Aloft community. We greatly appreciate all of the positive reviews and messages we've received since the update last week. As always, you can reach our team directly with any questions, feedback, ideas, or suggestion at any time at support@aloft.ai.
To build on that momentum, in today's app update, you'll find improvements to preflight functionality like weather and map performance, inflight capabilities and bug fixes, and post-flight logging and flight notes.
Thanks for flying Aloft!
2.2.2 03/08/2023
This update brings several improvements to mission planning and flight logging. Missions can now be duplicated, making it faster to create new missions based on existing ones, and the mission creation experience has been refined with clearer upload status and easier access to mission actions. We’ve also upgraded the Battery Picker with Recents, My Batteries, and All Batteries sections, along with an improved experience across iPhone and iPad. Finally, manual flight logging now includes location, date, and duration controls directly in the app, making it easier to capture complete flight details without needing to make additional edits on the web. Thanks for flying with Air Control!
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