Prior to 2016, the company designed and marketed commercial and recreational unmanned aerial vehicles. They produced consumer drones, ready-to-fly quadcopters for aerial photography and mapping, and fixed-wing UAVs based on the Ardupilot platform. As of September 2016, 3DR and the major open source Ardupilot development community, separated due to disagreements over the license of the open source code which 3DR products are based upon.
