About/History

Stephan Sabath

Grown up in a company for aerial target drones, Stephan Sabath has been very early an UAV test pilot for "TOPP Fernlenkkoerper- und Modellflug GmbH" in Iserlohn/Germany. This comapny manufactured the german aerial target drone KZD-II (Klein-Ziel-Drohne).
The target drone was  designed and built for the Flak 20mm Anti-Aircraft cannon.
In the year 1985, he was German's youth master in F3A aerobatics.
During his military duty he was a KZD manual pilot ("Drohnenlenker").

For a 2 years Belgian Forces firing exercises at NAMFI (Nato Missile Firing Installation/Crete) he was TOPP's responsible systems engineer for the conversion of the  KZD-II to the Aerial Target Drone II.  
28 ATD-II targets were hit by the French Matra Mistral missiles.

For some reasons of import protection the Belgian Forces assembled their own
Aerial Targets.
TOPP Fernlenkoerper- und Modellflug GmbH had to close the company.

In a second attempt running UAV technology on a standard industrial level
Stephan Sabath has been a sub-supplier for Rheinmetall Defense/Bremen.
In this project some 2/3 scale TUCAN UAV's were produced including mold tools, integration of avionics, recovery system, engine for the German LUNA UAV Award. 

In addition, he was the manual UAV test pilot. 

Today he develops UAV Systems up to the autonomous flying platform.