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.'