Drone maker EagleNXT moves global headquarters to Allen

Allen is set to become the new center of EagleNXT’s business as the drone maker moves its global headquarters from Wichita, Kansas, to a leased 33,000-square-foot facility at 505 Century Parkway. The shift puts engineering, customer support and marketing communications under one roof with manufacturing, a move that ties Collin County more closely to Texas’s growing drone corridor.

EagleNXT announced the relocation on Jan. 14, 2026, and said the Allen site will receive capital investment for facility upgrades, offices, tooling and equipment. The company has scheduled a grand opening ceremony for May 27, 2026, and said phased operations were expected to begin in May. EagleNXT also said the North Texas operation is expected to employ at least 25 people over the next two years.

The Allen facility is more than an office move. It will house the company’s first U.S. production line for the eBee VISION drone and production for MicaSense multispectral sensors used in agriculture to monitor crop health. EagleNXT said the Allen operation will complement its existing drone production line in Switzerland, giving the company a domestic manufacturing base for government and parapublic customers that it says will simplify acquisition and support.

Bill Irby said the move will help EagleNXT tap into Dallas-Fort Worth’s talent pool in aerospace, technology, product development and advanced manufacturing. Gov. Greg Abbott welcomed the relocation as an investment in Texas’s aerospace and high-tech industries, and Allen Economic Development Corporation President Dan Bowman said the company will bring high-quality jobs and innovation to the city.

For residents, the public-interest question is what kind of technology is coming into town. Dallas Innovates described the eBee VISION as a fixed-wing surveillance drone that can be deployed in three minutes by a single operator, and said the platform has been tested by special forces in the United States and Europe and delivered to the U.S. Army, the French Army and the Danish Ministry of Defense. That military and security footprint gives Allen a manufacturing presence with clear defense ties, not just a consumer-tech operation.

The move lands as North Texas keeps building out drone and advanced aviation activity. In 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration selected the Texas A&M University System to lead a new Center for Advanced Aviation Technologies in Fort Worth, and law enforcement agencies across the region have been focusing on unauthorized drones ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup matches. Flytrex has also opened a drone manufacturing and maintenance facility in Pilot Point as it works toward 60 delivery sites across Dallas-Fort Worth by mid-2027. In that context, EagleNXT’s Allen headquarters adds another job-creating piece to a regional industry cluster that is moving from experiment to infrastructure.