Regional partners

Be part of the movement to digitally transform aviation.

"You know what's vintage? Paper strips! …making this 1970s tech a thing of the past." — Sean P. Duffy, U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Even the world's largest aviation system is only now retiring paper: just 17 U.S. control towers run digital flight strips. Picture the thousands of regional airports and airfields everywhere else. The vast majority are under-served, and that is the opportunity.

Our mission

Most of the world's airports are small: regional airports, municipal airfields, training fields and air force bases. They are under-served by modern digital technology and they run on Excel and paper. Movements are written in a log book, invoices are typed again from that log, and the history sits in spreadsheets that do not agree with each other. The real problem is data quality, and helping these airports with it is why Ironwood Aero exists.

So we built the platform that fixes it. Every movement is recorded once, at source, and carried to billing, statistics and reporting without being typed again. It runs on a tablet on the apron, online or offline, in thirteen languages. It was designed and built in Africa, and now we are taking it to the world.

Now we are scaling, with a partner in every region

We build one platform and hold its IP. A regional partner takes it to market, close to the airports. Each region adds a market, never a fork: local tariffs, tax, currency and language are configuration, and one release reaches every region. What one region needs becomes something every region can use, so each new region is easier to open than the last.

Partners in

South Africa
Europe
Canada

Looking for partners in

East Africa
The United States
South America

Your region

Not on the list? Nominate it. The Baltics, or anywhere we have not reached yet: if you have standing in its aviation community, tell us below.

How the model works

Ironwood Aero

Owns the platform and its IP. Builds one product with one release, sets one security and privacy standard for every region, gives third line support, and trains and certifies partners.

The regional partner

A local business, owned and run in its market. Sells, implements and trains in the local language, runs the regional node with us, gives first and second line support, and earns on its services and on the licences it sells.

The customer

Airports, airport groups and associations, air navigation service providers and civil aviation authorities. One platform on its own tariff, tax, currency and language, with its data held in its own region.

A seat at the table

We are convening a steering committee to oversee the globalisation of Ironwood Aero, and every regional partner has a seat on it. As a partner you:

Drive sales in your region, as the local face of Ironwood Aero.
Are the regional product owner: you speak for your region's airports: their operational challenges, and their tariffs, rules and regulators.
Shape the roadmap: what you see in your market is the evidence we build on.
Decide what is developed next, side by side with every other region.

The committee's first priorities, in order: new business, a review of the platform in each region's languages, and a product review with backlog proposals from every region. What it decides, and why, is written down, so every region can see how a decision was reached.

What you take to market

Run an airport on a tablet. Movements, billing, parking, permits, the customer portal and AI-vision capture, from a browser, tablet or phone, even offline on the ramp.
Own your region. Be the local face, the trusted presence who speaks the language and knows the regulator. A local owner, not a reseller at the back of a queue.
Backed by a proven platform. Ironwood has serviced airport clients since 2019, live and in production, hosted in your own region, held to one central standard.