The Low-Altitude Economy · Advanced Air Mobility · Africa
Advancing the
future of autonomy
in Africa.
Global Air Holdings owns, operates, and invests in the future of autonomy in Africa — a portfolio of drone and autonomy companies, the capital that backs the sector, and the events, education, and policy access that move it forward.
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Elevate Africa UAS Summit · Nairobi 2024
Next month · South Korea
Join us in Incheon, South Korea✦The Africa Pavilion✦Drone & UAM Expo✦
Join us in Incheon, South Korea✦The Africa Pavilion✦Drone & UAM Expo✦
10+
Years operating across the drone industry
Since 2015
30+
Countries of delivery, fieldwork & engagement
27,000+
Professionals & entrepreneurs trained or reached
6
Entities under one holding company
About Global Air Holdings
A decade building Africa's drone economy.
Global Air Holdings owns and operates a family of drone and autonomy companies advancing Africa's low-altitude economy. We bring the industry together through events, education, and partnerships, and open access to policy and grants — built on a decade of operating and market access across the continent.
01
Own & Operate
We run a portfolio of drone and autonomy companies — from operations and training to a pilot network and intelligence.
02
Convene the Industry
We bring the sector together through events, education, and partnerships — from Aviation Africa to the Africa Pavilion.
03
Build Locally
Manufacturing, assembly, and a continental workforce — rooting the technology in the markets we serve.
04
Open Access
We open access to policy, regulators, and grants — turning a decade of relationships into real market entry.
One holding company · six entities
A portfolio building the future of autonomy
Global Air Holdings owns and operates a family of entities — from continental operations and policy leadership to AI advisory, a global pilot network, and an intelligence platform.
Parent Company
Global Air Holdings
The strategic platform and operating core behind the six companies below — building the future of autonomy in Africa and beyond.
ADF
01 / 06ADF
African Drone Forum
Convening & Regulators Forum
GAU
02 / 06GAU
Global Air U
AI Strategy Advisory
EQ
03 / 06EQ
Equalizr
AI Command Center
GAA
04 / 06GAA
Global Air Africa
Continental Platform
GAE
05 / 06GAE
Global Air Enterprise
Global Pilot Network
GME
06 / 06GME
Global Air Drones FZ
Drone Integration · UAE & Gulf
01 — Policy
African Drone Forum
Convening & Regulators Forum
Where Africa's drone policy gets written — leading the Drone & AAM track at Aviation Africa and the inaugural Regulators Forum.
↳Opens the markets every other company operates within.
02 — Advisory
Global Air U
AI Strategy Advisory
The strategists of the drone industry, now pointed at AI — helping businesses understand and deploy it.
↳Sharpens the group and its clients with AI strategy.
03 — Platform
Equalizr
AI Command Center
The operator's AI command center — a Co-Brain that teaches any AI to write, decide, and work like you, wired into agents for sales, ops, and finance.
↳The intelligence layer powering decisions across the group.
04 — Continental
Global Air Africa
Continental Platform
Our home on the continent — the entity that roots operations, manufacturing, and partnerships in the markets we serve.
↳Where the group's operations and training land in Africa.
05 — Network
Global Air Enterprise
Global Pilot Network
A tech-enabled pilot network — onboard pilots, dispatch missions, and capture reality data anywhere.
↳Deploys the trained pilots into paid missions worldwide.
06 — Middle East
Global Air Drones FZ
Drone Integration · UAE & Gulf
The group’s UAE-based arm — strategic drone integration, training, and program implementation across the Gulf.
↳Carries integration and training into the UAE & Gulf.
OPERATE · CONVENE · ADVISE · DISPATCH · COMPOUND
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Localization · assembly & supply chain
From factory floor to flight corridor
We don't import the
future. We build it here.
Localization is the thesis: manufacturing and assembly on the continent, operated by a continental workforce, governed by frameworks we help write.
- 01Manufacturing & localization — assembly, components, and supply-chain build-out on the continent
- 02BVLOS & advanced air mobility operations across logistics, survey, and public service
- 03Regulatory leadership — convening governments around modern drone policy
- 04Pan-African deployment model, market by market, ministry by ministry
Where we operate
On the ground in 12+ African markets.
Project delivery, training, and ecosystem work across the continent — built on the regulator and ministry relationships that make market entry real.
NigeriaKenyaGhanaRwandaEthiopiaSouth AfricaTanzaniaSenegalZambiaZimbabweSierra LeoneBurkina Faso
$2B
African drone market by 2025
CNBC Africa
1st
Africa Pavilion & air-taxi demo on the continent
5,000+
Field missions flown across sectors
NDA
Trained at the Nigerian Defence Academy
The history
From a Baltimore startup to a continental platform.
2015
Founded in Baltimore
Started as a drone services and media company — the roots of the Global Air ecosystem.
2016
Global Air Drone Academy (GADA)
Launched the nonprofit for drone education and STEAM workforce development.
2018
First U.S. Embassy-funded program
Delivered in Nigeria; programs expand across the UK, UAE, and Central Asia.
2020
African Drone Business Competition — Grand Prize
Won in Kigali, Rwanda; established a training center in Lagos.
2021
Global Air Africa established
Local office in Lagos; the Africa market-entry and implementation platform takes shape.
2023
Chairman, African Drone Forum
Assumed leadership of Africa's largest drone convening platform; training at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
2025
Aviation Africa & the Africa Pavilion
Ran the Drone & AAM track and the continent's first air-taxi demo; launched the first-ever Africa Pavilion. Global Air Holdings forms as parent.
Leadership
Operator-led, ecosystem-deep.
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Eno Umoh · President
Eno Umoh
President, Global Air Holdings · Chairman, African Drone Forum
A global drone strategist and ecosystem architect, Eno has spent a decade advising governments, OEMs, and operators on market entry, regulation, and workforce development. Founder of Global Air U and Global Air Africa and co-founder of GADA, he has helped train 27,000+ professionals across 30+ countries — and speaks at the Smithsonian, FAA UAS Symposium, XPONENTIAL, and Drone Show Korea.
- →Chairman of the African Drone Forum — Africa's largest drone convening platform
- →Partnerships with the U.S. Department of State, World Bank, FAA & national CAAs
- →Leads a bench of operators across the entities — the company is the ecosystem, not one person
In their words
Trusted by the people who unlock markets.
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Global Air brought regulators, operators, and trainers into one room — and turned a policy conversation into real momentum for our market.
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Amani Achieng
Director General · Civil Aviation Authority, East Africa
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Their team understands both the technology and the ground reality. The workforce programs they ran left lasting capacity behind.
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Gideon Partey
Program Lead · National Drone Initiative, West Africa
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A rare partner that can move from ministry meetings to field operations without missing a beat.
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Daniela Pires
Senior Advisor · Pan-African Development Program
Programs & partnerships involving
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Embassies
World Bank
FAA
Civil Aviation Authorities
Aviation Africa
African Drone Forum
As featured in
CNN
BBC
Smithsonian
AOPA
DroneLife
Citizen Digital
Get in touch
Let's talk.
Whether you're a government, partner, operator, or collaborator — reach out and we'll get back to you. We're always glad to share more about the group and the work we're building across the continent.
