AirQtel is a Wellesley, Massachusetts aerial surveillance operator founded in 2021 by Vin Loccisano. It sells ultra-high-resolution real-time aerial imaging as a service, flown from its own fleet of manned aircraft and remotely piloted hardware carrying its proprietary "Looking-Glass" imaging systems, to military, government and commercial customers, and announced a $27M Series A in February 2025 following a prototype launch of the Looking Glass aerial network across four countries. Its only published domain, airqtel.com, hosted a three-page Squarespace brochure site (Home, About, Partner Portal login) with no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind, and as of 2026-09-19 that domain is no longer registered (NXDOMAIN at every public resolver; Verisign RDAP 404).
AirQtel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Aerial Surveillance, Aerospace and Defense, Drones, Imaging, and Geospatial.
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aid: airqtel
name: AirQtel
description: AirQtel is a Wellesley, Massachusetts aerial surveillance operator founded in 2021 by Vin Loccisano. It sells
ultra-high-resolution real-time aerial imaging as a service, flown from its own fleet of manned aircraft and remotely piloted
hardware carrying its proprietary "Looking-Glass" imaging systems, to military, government and commercial customers, and
announced a $27M Series A in February 2025 following a prototype launch of the Looking Glass aerial network across four
countries. Its only published domain, airqtel.com, hosted a three-page Squarespace brochure site (Home, About, Partner Portal
login) with no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind, and as of 2026-09-19 that domain is
no longer registered (NXDOMAIN at every public resolver; Verisign RDAP 404).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/airqtel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest-no-api-surface
x-domain-status: unregistered
x-domain-note: airqtel.com is the domain AirQtel published in its own 2025-02-23 Series A release (website www.airqtel.com,
media contact @airqtel.com). On 2026-09-19 airqtel.com and www.airqtel.com return NXDOMAIN from 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9
(no A, NS or MX), and Verisign's .com RDAP answers 404 for the name while answering 200 for a control domain, so the registration
itself has lapsed rather than the site going dark. The Wayback Machine holds a live Squarespace site through 2025-12-27.
No shutdown, acquisition or rebrand announcement was found, so the company's operating status is unknown and it is NOT marked
defunct; no Website pointer is wired because no host the company controls currently answers, and the Nasdaq Private Market
listing the harvest stub carried is a trading venue, not the company.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-19'
modified: '2026-09-19'
tags:
- Aerial Surveillance
- Aerospace and Defense
- Drones
- Imaging
- Geospatial
- Government
- Hardware
- Company
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: X-WellKnownProbe
url: well-known/airqtel-well-known.yml
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: not-a-software-company
detail: AirQtel sells aerial surveillance flight hours and imagery from its own aircraft and remotely piloted hardware,
and its only published domain, airqtel.com, was a three-page Squarespace brochure (Home, About, Partner Portal login)
whose archived /.well-known/* and /api/ paths all returned 404 while it was live; the domain is now unregistered (NXDOMAIN
at 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9; Verisign RDAP 404), no GitHub org, npm or PyPI package exists, and the only reachable
200 is the Nasdaq Private Market venue listing the harvest stub carried, which is not the company.
evidence:
- url: https://www.airqtel.com/
status: 0
- url: https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/airqtel.com
status: 404
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/airqtel
status: 404
- url: https://pypi.org/pypi/airqtel/json
status: 404
- url: https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/
status: 200
checked: '2026-09-19'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-19'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v3
x-status-detail: Live company (USD 27M Series A, Feb 2025) but airqtel.com has no DNS records as of 2026-09-22; search indexes
still show its old Squarespace pages.
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