Team archive

1. 08

   2025–2026

   Zephyros

   Zephyros is a fixed-wing VTOL tricopter, and the first of our aircraft with carbon tubes we made ourselves.

   Rebuild Award

   26 on the current team

   • Miguel Bofil Grandes
   • Walid Slimani
   • Furkan Canbolat
   • Brandon Dcruz
   • Karl Kroski
   • Daniel Luis Mederos
   • George Birca
   • Emiel Keizers
   • Ioannis Soulimiotis
   • Anis Spiridon
   • Daniel Simon
   • Xavier Taboada
   • Justin Nguyen
   • Andre Cuadras Diaz
   • Elze Mazuronyte
   • Arlen T Croak
   • Yousef Hannouneh
   • George-Razvan Chirila
   • Wisang Umam
   • Nagi Anezaki
   • Alejandro Solis Mercado
   • Alexander Radoslavov Rachev
   • Arthur Tyron
   • Victor Andrei
   • Illia Mirzaali
   • Andrii Yevmenchuck

2. 07

   2024–2025

   Nightingale

   Nightingale completed the team's first fully autonomous competition mission and returned with two awards.

   Best Design · Best Media & Engagement

   The roster for this season isn't public yet.

3. 06

   2023–2024

   Freebird

   The team cut the motor count to four and used tilting front rotors for hover, transition, and forward flight.

   Most Promising Team

   The roster for this season isn't public yet.

4. 05

   2022–2023

   Nekbeth

   The team took Nekbeth, a fast and largely 3D-printed VTOL aircraft, to the UAS Challenge.

   IMechE UAS Challenge

   25 in the public roster

   • Maxim Ciscato
   • Tom Kluin
   • Antons Averins
   • Matthijs Kleine
   • Miro Sarkkinen
   • Dan Sneider
   • Codruța Ionescu
   • Elena Gazzano
   • Ama Serwah Boakye
   • Ahmed Mahran
   • Tristan Voors
   • Ali Mohamed Ali
   • Theo Syriopoulos
   • Youssef Kamel
   • Rieks Kaiser
   • Janis Andersons
   • Gerard Bel Català
   • Yannis Ntikoudis
   • Nikolas Katsantonis
   • Linas Lee
   • Pedro Henrique Da Silva
   • Vanesa Murniece
   • Alexandra Chetruș
   • Daniela Iamandii
   • Ștefan Minu

5. 04

   2021–2022

   Thunderbird

   Thirteen students built Thunderbird, and the team also did STEM outreach that year.

   Media & Engagement Award

   13 in the public roster

   • Sietse Oosterhout
   • Rens de Boer
   • Maxim Ciscato
   • Philippe Damoiseaux
   • Bas Kluijtmans
   • Koen Freriks
   • Thomas de Rooij
   • Jort Flapper
   • Ajitesh Malli
   • Shervin Tochani
   • Wouter Gerritsen
   • Sofia de Gruijter
   • Nikolas Katsantonis

6. 03

   2020–2021

   Phoenix

   The Phoenix team continued work on the hybrid VTOL layout during a largely remote competition year.

   Most Promising Team

   9 in the public roster

   • Nils Rutgers
   • Ishaan Desai
   • Bhanu Chidura
   • Dick Dekker
   • Ekaterina Antimirova
   • Thomas de Rooij
   • Bryan Lovato
   • Raj Kumar Ashokan
   • Rodrigo Carvalho

7. 02

   2019–2020

   VAU2

   The second team worked on several aircraft projects and earned Drone Team Twente's first Innovation Award.

   Innovation Award

   16 in the public roster

   • Niels Kadijk
   • Tjebbe Treub
   • Thomas Rebel
   • Akarsh Gopal
   • Connor Stork
   • Jurgen Rietberg
   • Nils Rublein
   • Gayathri Dhanapal
   • Tamerlan Askarzade
   • Xian Bodelón Ruibal
   • Raj Kumar Ashokan
   • Fabian Sisavanh
   • Bhanu Teja Chidura
   • Silas Nethe
   • Kai Ferdelman
   • Casper van Uijtert

8. 01

   2018–2019

   Toothless

   The founding team built Toothless, an octa-plane VTOL, and entered the UAS Challenge for the first time.

   Competition debut

   The roster for this season isn't public yet.

Were you on one of these teams and missing from the list? Email info@droneteamtwente.nl and we'll add you.