The Skydweller drone was last visible on the flight-tracking service Flight Radar 24 north of Cancun, Mexico, in the early morning hours of May 4. The company described the drone as eventually performing a “controlled water ditching” around 6:30 am Eastern Time, but the aircraft “subsequently sank due to its non-buoyant composite structure.”
By the time it went under, the Skydweller drone had performed a record-breaking, solar-powered flight of eight days and 14 minutes—longer than any previous flights as either a drone or crewed aircraft. The company Skydweller Aero commemorated it as an “operational prototype” that had “validated the practical military utility of a persistent, medium-altitude solar aircraft” despite
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