Niubalus Logistics flies blood, vaccines, medicines and pathology samples between hospitals and remote health centres — and carries urgent spares for industry — using long-range VTOL drones built for PNG's mountains and weather.
Mountains, rivers and missing roads cut remote communities off from the medicines and tests they need. A trip that takes a day on foot or a costly charter flight can take a drone under an hour.
Difficult terrain and limited infrastructure stop trucks, boats and planes from reaching many health centres reliably.
Inconsistent access to medical supplies widens the gap between town and village health outcomes.
When blood or anti-venom is hours away, slow response times put patients at risk.
Emergency and scheduled runs of blood, vaccines and medicines, plus pathology pickup — cold-chain packed and tracked.
Medical services →Hot-shot spares, samples and documents between site, camp and town — without waiting for the next helicopter.
Mining & industry →Seeds and inputs in, coffee, cocoa and vanilla out — plus crop monitoring and spraying for farms and cooperatives.
Agriculture →Provincial drone networks for health, cargo logistics, education and disaster response, planned with local leaders.
For government →Programme resupply, vaccine cold chain and emergency relief for NGOs, churches and development partners.
For NGOs →Aerial camera and thermal monitoring for sites, infrastructure, borders, search and rescue and disaster assessment.
Surveillance →The hospital or health centre books a run — routine or emergency — with our operations team.
Supplies are packed in cold-chain or specimen boxes and loaded into the drone's payload bay.
The drone flies a planned route beyond line of sight, tracked in real time by our pilots.
It lands on the clinic's pad, staff unload and confirm, and it returns — with samples if needed.
The Wingcopter 198 tilts its eight rotors to switch between hovering and fast forward flight. No runway, no heavy ground equipment — just a small landing pad.
Manufacturer figures from Wingcopter. Real range depends on payload, weather and altitude.
Alongside the Wingcopter 198, we are preparing two larger aircraft for the PNG Sky Highway.
Coming soonA fully autonomous long-range cargo aircraft from Skyways (USA): up to 100 lb (about 45 kg) of cargo, more than 1,000 miles (about 1,600 km) of range and around 20 hours in the air. It would carry middle-mile freight from our bases to district towns, airstrips and mine sites.
Manufacturer figures; aircraft in development (expected 2026).
Coming soonAn unmanned tandem-rotor helicopter carrying up to 250 kg over 400 km — the heavy-lift connector between our bases, and a disaster-response aircraft that can hover and lower cargo where nothing can land.
Planned specification for the model under evaluation.
Classroom days and flying practice with our instructors, and a learning app for everything in between — lessons in English with Tok Pisin help, quizzes, practice exams and a tutor that answers questions any time.
We start where the need is greatest — the Ok Tedi corridor in Western Province — and grow base by base into a national drone network: a Port Moresby hub, regional bases across the Highlands, Islands and Milne Bay, and village drone pads that put every province within reach.
Our first service area is the Kiunga–Tabubil corridor and the Star Mountains. These provincial governments and leaders have written in support of, or signed agreements for, Niubalus drone services:
Hospitals, health authorities, mines, farms, provinces and NGOs — send us the route and the payload and we will come back with a plan.