Mainblades has performed the first European fully automated outdoor airport drone inspection of a commercial aircraft at an active airfield in Woensdrecht, Netherlands. To validate the increasing interest for outdoor airport drone inspections, Mainblades used its M300 drone solution to inspect an Airbus A330. Typically, aircraft inspections require inspectors on-site to check that all the damages and repairs of the aircraft are correctly recorded in the damaged and repair mapping report. This becomes problematic with bigger aircraft as it can be hard to take a good look on top including the wings or the tail. With a drone, this process becomes much easier since a drone can fly around the aircraft to find damage and take pictures that show more than can be seen with the naked eye.