Wingbits Q3 2025 Log: Accelerating Across Continents

5,000 stations. That's where we stand today, but it barely captures what Q3 2025 has meant for Wingbits. While our network expanded across continents, something bigger was happening: we forged partnerships to help redefine how aviation data flows between airlines, researchers, and infrastructure providers.

Korean Air is now collaborating with us to power their next-generation research. One of Vietnam's leading AI institutes made us their flight data partner. Meanwhile, Wingbits devices can now come online using Roam's global wireless network, and our expansion into India gained serious momentum through Dabba's proven infrastructure.

These aren't just your average business deals - they're the building blocks of a connected aviation intelligence ecosystem that didn't exist six months ago.

Every day, somewhere in the world, a new Wingbits station comes online. In Q3, the network scaled to approximately 5,000 active stations globally, each representing a community member who’s in it for the long haul. The network tracks  over 150,000 flights daily, but the real story lies in where these stations are located.

The network increased by 13.38% this quarter alone, reflecting the genuine momentum across diverse markets. Brazil led absolute expansion with 159 new stations, more than doubling their network footprint, while the United States added 150 stations to reach 1,641 total. What's particularly notable is the 99.6% retention rate across the network, with only 18 stations going offline during the entire quarter.

When Korean Air's R&D Center needed high-quality, real-time ADS-B data spanning three continents, they had options. They chose Wingbits. 

The strategic partnership marks an important milestone in both organizations’ efforts to shape the future of air mobility and integrated airspace management. By combining Wingbits’ scalable data infrastructure and surveillance capabilities with Korean Air’s advanced research initiatives, the collaboration aims to strengthen the foundation for advancing next-generation air mobility solutions that prioritize safety, efficiency, and innovation in an increasingly complex global airspace.

Read about our partnership in Coindesk.

Meanwhile in Vietnam, Professor Bui Quang Hung's team at Vietnam National University was looking for partners to advance AI-powered flight analysis. Our collaboration with their Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence brings together academic excellence with real-world aviation data, with planned coordination with the Vietnam Aviation Administration to ensure our work contributes to the broader development of the region's aviation infrastructure.

India's aviation growth story reads like something out of an economic textbook: passenger traffic doubled, 487 airports and airstrips operational or planned, massive infrastructure investment. But growth creates deployment challenges across a region where connectivity and logistics vary dramatically.

Dabba Network solved this puzzle with their infrastructure spanning nearly 14,000 hotspots and proven experience deploying 800 WeatherXM stations - we're now leveraging their framework through a strategic partnership, instead of building from scratch. 

Meanwhile, Roam's eSIM technology addresses connectivity headaches everywhere our hardware operates, allowing devices to connect through their OpenRoaming network, switch between carriers automatically, and maintain consistent data streams regardless of location. We tested this integration for a month and it exceeded our expectations.

Our exploration into the environmental impacts on aviation emerged through a partnership with Nubila - their sensor network opens possibilities for correlating flight data with weather patterns, air quality measurements, and environmental conditions in real-time.

The conference circuit in Asia-Pacific runs on relationships, and Q3 was our opportunity to build them systematically. Japan Blockchain Week kicked things off with WebX Asia and SuperTokyo 2025, where live device demonstrations drew crowds of people wanting to understand how decentralized flight tracking actually works.

Korea Blockchain Week represented our biggest regional push - Robin took the stage for multiple panels on how DePIN Data integrates with physical AI and how to scale it, while we co-hosted events and ran device giveaways that connected us directly with Korean community members.

Singapore's Token2049 closed out our tour with live interviews alongside partners like Dabba Network and panel discussions that reinforced our position in the APAC DePIN ecosystem. By the time we landed back home, we had established meaningful connections across three major markets and laid groundwork for partnerships extending well beyond Q3.

Hamburg's Sustainable Aero Lab accelerator doesn't accept just anyone - the program focuses specifically on aviation technology that can meaningfully contribute to sustainability goals, and their acceptance provides direct access to aviation industry mentors and resources that most startups never see.

DronePort Network, an Oklahoma-based UAV infrastructure developer, chose Wingbits to power meerir, an AI-driven airspace intelligence platform. The partnership integrates our real-time ADS-B data into a conversational AI that lets airports, universities, and city planners query complex aviation data in plain language. The University of Montana is beta testing the system for traffic visibility and deconfliction improvements. When a national leader in autonomous systems infrastructure chooses your data, it validates both the quality and real-world utility of what you’re building.

The media attention around our partnerships tells its own story: Cointelegraph featured Yanal Hammouda discussing low altitude economy developments across UAE and MENA, while Jeff Wilson's analysis of FAA BVLOS drone operations for Zag Daily highlighted Wingbits’ perspective on regulatory developments.

Korean Air's partnership announcement created ripple effects across CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, The Korea Times, eVTOL Insights, and Simple Flying - publications that typically focus on very different aspects of aviation and technology all covering our collaboration.

Building technology that serves both Korean Air's R&D requirements and individual community contributors requires a specific kind of engineering talent. Q3 brought us data engineers, software engineers, software developers, and UX/UI designers who understand how to create systems that scale gracefully across vastly different use cases.

The evolution is notable: we started as a hardware-focused network where the primary challenge was getting devices to work reliably, and today we operate a comprehensive aviation intelligence platform that processes massive data streams, serves enterprise API requirements, and maintains the user-friendly interfaces that keep our community engaged.

Consider how these partnerships amplify each other: Roam's connectivity solutions eliminate deployment barriers, making Dabba’s expansion strategy more effective, which increases the data volume flowing to partners like Nubila for environmental analysis. Korean Air benefits from higher data quality across regions where traditional infrastructure is sparse, while Vietnam National University gains access to datasets that would be challenging to collect through conventional means.

This isn't coordination by design - it's emergence through practical problem-solving where each partnership addresses specific challenges, but together they create infrastructure that's more robust, more accessible, and more valuable than any single network could build alone.

The foundation is set, the partnerships are operational, and the technical capabilities have been proven at scale. Aviation partnerships with Korean Air validate our enterprise capabilities, infrastructure collaborations with Dabba and Roam solve practical deployment challenges across diverse markets, environmental partnerships with Nubila unlock entirely new applications for flight data, and academic collaborations in Vietnam establish research credibility in fast-growing regions.

Each piece contributes to something larger: infrastructure that will power next-generation aviation intelligence, autonomous systems research, and connected transportation networks globally. As we steam ahead towards our mainnet launch in the coming period, Q4 will show just how much potential these foundations have created.