UAS Challenge 2026 award winners and results

The full list of award winners and results from BMFA Buckminster is now available.

Congratulations to all teams who took part in this year's UAS Challenge, the biggest and busiest competition to date. We hope you enjoyed the chance to show off your hard work and had fun over the week's fly off finals. The full results are now available to download, and the full list of award winners are as follows:

• Grand Champions: Team Bath Drones, University of Bath
• Runners Up: Beihang Aeromodelling Team, Beihang University
• Third Place: UCD UAV Team, University College Dublin
• Innovation Award: Loughborough UAV, University of Loughborough
• Design Award: UCL Nova 1, University College London
• Simulation Award: Beihang Aeromodelling Team, Beihang University
• Scrutineering Award: Lagari UAV Tam, Yildiz Technical University
• Safety Award: UCD UAV Team, University College Dublin
• Environmental Award: Team Bath Drones, University of Bath
• Airworthiness Award: Team Bath Drones, University of Bath
• Operational Supportability Award: Team Bath Drones, University of Bath
• Business Proposition Award: Team Starbound, University of Thassaly
• Most Promise Award: 1.5 Adana UAV Team, Cukurova University
• Advancement Award: UCD UAV Team, University College Dublin
• Media and Engagement Award: Project Dronaid, Manipal Institute of Technology
• Rebuild Award: DroneTeam Twente, University of Twente

Registration for the 2027 UAS Challenge will open in late September, for further details of the competition and how to get involved, please visit the UAS Challenge website or follow the Challenge’s social media channels.