EU Motors Opens Florida Plant to Manufacture American-Made Drone Motors

When the FCC issued Public Notice DA 25-1086 on December 22, 2025, adding drone motors to its national security Covered List, it effectively handed Polish manufacturer EU Motors Sp. z o.o. a deadline it had already been waiting for. Two months later, the company had machinery in the air.

EU Motors opened EU Motors USA in Hallandale Beach, Broward County, Florida on February 26, 2026, starting at 5,000 motors per month and already shipping first units. The whole operation, from regulatory trigger to operational plant, came together in a matter of weeks. The company did not wait for a slow freight shipment: it airlifted production machinery directly from its Polish assembly lines to South Florida to meet compliance requirements.

"We are so excited to produce drone motors in America," said James Buchheim, Chairman of EU Motors. "We were dreaming of this day for a while, and the FCC requirement just accelerated our dream. We flew tons of machines by air from our Polish assembly line to our new facility in Florida."

The FCC mandate requires all drone manufacturers seeking FCC aircraft approval to use U.S.-manufactured electric motors, a compliance threshold that caught many domestic builders without a domestic supplier. EU Motors, which operates Polish facilities capable of producing more than 100,000 motors monthly on fully automated robotic lines, positioned itself as one of the only non-Chinese manufacturers with the scale to respond quickly. The first units rolling off the Hallandale Beach line are the 3115 and 1505 motors.

The 3115 is the one that matters most to the FPV community. It is a mid-size brushless motor in the 37mm stator diameter class, typically running at around 900KV, and it turns up in 9 to 10 inch heavy-payload long-range builds: cinematic FPV rigs, tactical surveillance platforms, and the kind of military-adjacent hardware that has drawn serious attention since Ukraine demonstrated what well-built FPV drones can do at scale. The 1505, by contrast, is aimed at lightweight intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drones, a different weight class but equally relevant to the compliance-driven demand the FCC notice created.

The Hallandale Beach facility carries additional economic advantages beyond regulatory compliance. The plant benefits from tariff-free production and sources key materials, including copper, locally. EU Motors said the site will be supported by dedicated in-house engineering and electromagnetic simulation teams, enabling continuous development rather than simple assembly-line replication of its Polish catalog. An expansion roadmap and additional domestic motor models are planned, though no specific capacity targets or timelines were disclosed.

For U.S. drone manufacturers that were already EU Motors customers, the Florida plant converted a critical supply chain problem into a workable domestic option almost overnight. For the broader industry, it signals how quickly a single regulatory notice can redraw sourcing maps when a manufacturer is ready to move fast enough to airlift a factory.