Drone delivery service Wing looks to deliver the goods for Logan tradies

“Even as we were getting our warehouse site up and running, tradies would come by and all would say it would be great to have at worksites,” Mr Suskin said.

“They got really excited by it. Also in Logan a lot of our retail customers were also tradies and they were telling us the same thing, that it could be really useful.”

Wing is now looking at expanding the use of its app to tradies working in the suburbs covered by its delivery service.

Paul Charlton from Browns Plains Hardware said he had received good feedback on the service from tradies.

“If you’re working on someone’s house and you run out of the right screws, you’ve got to pack up, get to the nearest hardware store and get back, it can take half an hour at least, while we know Wing can do it in seven minutes,” Mr Charlton said.

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“There was a landscape gardener earlier in the year who ran short of whipper-snipper line and called up a drone and the extra line was delivered before he had to go to the next job.”

Wing has a central warehouse where it keeps a supply of goods from its retail partners which can be loaded onto the drones, which can carry just over a kilogram.

Users download the app and use it to order and pay for goods, with the drone delivering their item right to their door.

To expand to tradies, Wing would have to alter its app to allow people to request a drone to their current location rather than their registered address.

Mr Charlton said he believed the demand was there to service door-to-door tradesmen and even construction sites, with the current flying limitations Wing’s only obstacle.

Wing has approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to operate its remote-piloted drones in the Logan suburbs, and any expansion would have to be ticked off by the air safety regulator.

“It’s a little bit frustrating for me that they’re only doing two or three suburbs, I want them to expand to all of Brisbane, it’s such a great service,” Mr Charlton said.

Mr Suskin said they had plans to expand to neighbouring suburbs, in tandem with their move to expand to other user bases.

“Right now we’re in three suburbs, we just added Berrinba after being in Crestmead and Marsden for some time, but stay tuned on news for expansion, it will happen soon,” he said.