DragonPlate (Allred & Associates)
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Summary

DragonPlate is a brand of Allred & Associates supplying off-the-shelf carbon fiber composite materials — flat sheets, braided and roll-wrapped tubes, angles, pultruded shapes, and patented modular connector systems — along with custom design, engineering, and fabrication services, aimed at builders of UAVs, drones, and other lightweight structures.

Key Facts

  • Type: Component/materials supplier — off-the-shelf carbon fiber composite products and custom fabrication services
  • Status: Active, privately held (division of Allred & Associates)
  • Key metric(s): ISO 9001:2015-certified production; in-house CFD/FEA engineering analysis; Solidworks CAD and Mastercam CNC tool-path generation for custom parts; ready-to-assemble and DIY carbon fiber quadcopter frame kits
  • Value chain position: Component/materials supplier (raw composite stock and custom-fabricated structural parts for drone/UAV OEMs, integrators, and hobbyist/research builders — not a platform vendor)

What It Is / How It Works

DragonPlate’s core offering is a catalog of off-the-shelf carbon fiber composite stock — flat sheets, braided and roll-wrapped tubes, structural angles, and pultruded shapes — paired with a patented connector system for pultruded tubes and modular connectors for braided/roll-wrapped tubes, letting builders assemble multi-rotor frames and fixed-wing structures by cutting, drilling, and bonding standard parts rather than hand-laying custom composite from scratch. This lowers the barrier to building a lightweight, strong airframe for hobbyists, university teams, and small companies that don’t have in-house composite layup capability.

Beyond catalog parts, DragonPlate offers custom design and fabrication services to industry, government, and military partners: in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) for aerodynamics, stability, and structural load calculations, Solidworks CAD modeling, and Mastercam-driven CNC tool-path generation, backed by ISO 9001:2015-certified production capable of scaling from prototype to production volume. The company’s carbon fiber has been used in documented UAV projects including a first-place, “Most Innovative Design”-winning quadcopter at the 2016 International Aerial Robotics Competition (University of Montreal Polytechnique) and a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center carbon fiber rocket body project.

Notable Developments

  • Ongoing: DragonPlate continues to sell ready-to-assemble and DIY carbon fiber quadcopter frame kits alongside its raw composite stock catalog.
  • 2016: DragonPlate carbon fiber composites used in the University of Montreal Polytechnique’s first-place, “Most Innovative Design” quadcopter at the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC).
  • 2014: DragonPlate’s carbon fiber components featured in Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine in a hobbyist-built drone article, and used by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to build a carbon fiber rocket body.

Key People / Key Organizations

DragonPlate’s corporate materials reviewed for this entry do not name individual executive leadership; DragonPlate is described as a product line of Allred & Associates. LinkedIn: not found.

People — Last Reviewed: 2026-07-15

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