Your Drone Is Locked Up at the Czech Civil Aviation Authority — and They Won’t Mail It to You
You paid the fine. They’ll hand the drone back — but only in person, in Prague. We collect it for you and deliver it to your door anywhere in the world, safely packed and guaranteed within 9 days.
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Right now it probably feels like the whole system is quietly conspiring to keep your drone.
You hit a wall of red tape. The police seized it. It’s sitting at the Civil Aviation Authority. You paid the fine — and now they tell you the drone is yours again…
…but they won’t ship it. You can only collect it in person.
Except you’re no longer in the Czech Republic. And on the memory cards inside that drone are shots you can’t get back.
So you start thinking the unthinkable: just write the whole thing off. The drone. The footage. All of it.
Don’t. You’re at the end of this headache, not the start of a new one. Let me show you why this is harder than it looks — and how we make it simple.
Why You Can’t Just “Send a Courier”
The Authority won’t release the drone to a random courier driver they’ve never met.
Whoever collects it has to present a Power of Attorney with an ID number, and the handover itself takes about 20 minutes. No courier on a normal pickup route will sit through that.
“Fine,” you think, “I’ll ask a friend who lives in Prague.”
Your friend collects it — and then discovers the real trap: a private person cannot ship a drone by air. At all.
Here’s the Part Almost Nobody Knows
Drones run on Li-Ion batteries. That puts them under the DGR — Dangerous Goods Regulations.
These goods can only be shipped by someone IATA-certified to handle them, under contract with an air carrier that will actually fly the package and move it onward in certified vehicles to your door.
That certified person is also responsible for packing it so nothing goes wrong in the air — so the plane doesn’t catch fire over the Alps. That’s not a figure of speech to the people who fly it.
A burning Li-Ion battery hits around 2000 °C, is brutally hard to put out on the ground — let alone in a flying aircraft — and oxygen feeds the fire instead of killing it. It’s like pouring gasoline on flames.
That’s why, by the rules, every dangerous shipment is declared to the captain personally. The pilot responsible for everyone’s lives knows about every battery on board.
“But I flew here with my drone and nobody blinked!”
True — and beside the point. Carrying a battery in the cabin or your checked bag is a completely different thing from shipping one as air cargo. Cargo has to be certified, packed to spec, and declared. That’s the line a private person can’t cross.
And Why Won’t the Authority Just Mail It?
Because it’s a government body. It even trains shippers to handle dangerous goods — it doesn’t offer that service itself, and has no carrier contracts to do it. The law tells it to enforce the rules, not to courier seized drones around the planet.
What it does do tells you everything: they treat these batteries with such respect they store them in special fireproof bags — not on a shelf like everyone else. That’s the thing you’re up against.
So Here’s What We Do for You
We’re a licensed fulfillment and logistics company in Prague, IATA-certified to ship exactly these goods. One authorization from you, and the whole problem becomes ours:
- We collect your drone in person at the Civil Aviation Authority — and any seized accessories — using your Power of Attorney.
- We bring it to our dedicated packing depot and pack it to full DGR spec, matched to your batteries’ number and capacity and the transport used.
- A courier picks it up that same afternoon. We book secure, express, fully-tracked shipping to the exact address you give us.
- You get a tracking link and, within days, your drone is back in your hands — anywhere in the world.
The 9-day clock starts the moment we collect it. Outside the EU customs union (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the UK and others) it clears customs first — usually hours, sometimes a few days — then the courier delivers the next working day.
What It Costs
The price depends on the destination zone, the weight and size of the shipment, the number of batteries and their capacity — and whether you’re inside the EU customs union or a VAT payer in the EU.
Once we have those details, most jobs land from €127 to a few hundred euros — all in: the in-person pickup, the certified packing, and express delivery to your door.
Want it insured? Your call. Tell us the value and we’ll declare the shipment against loss or damage in transit. Prefer not to? We’ll declare a lower value so any customs clearance is calculated on the smaller amount.
Our 9-Day Guarantee
Your drone reaches you within a maximum of 9 days from the moment we collect it at the Civil Aviation Authority.
Why You Can Trust Us With the Pickup
We’ve already collected and shipped around 155 drones to 37 countries — this is exactly what we do.
This isn’t a side gig. We’ve run warehouse logistics and fulfillment as ELMS service s.r.o. since 2011 — and we’re IATA-certified to ship dangerous goods, the exact category your drone falls into.
We handle Li-Ion batteries with the same respect the Authority does: certified packing, cargo declared to the carrier, full tracking from our Prague depot to your door.
What Happens Now
It takes one short form.
- Fill in the form below — drone type, number of batteries and their capacity in mAh, any accessories, plus the full delivery address, email and phone.
- We send you a no-obligation quote within 24 hours.
- You approve it. We issue the invoice and send you the Power of Attorney.
- You sign and return it (to us and to the Authority’s contact email) — and we take it from there.
The hard part is already behind you. This is the easy part.
Get Your No-Obligation Quote
Tell us about your drone and where it should go. You’ll have a price within 24 hours — no obligation.
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P.S. Your drone isn’t lost — it’s stuck. Authorize us to collect it, we pack it to DGR spec and deliver it to your door, guaranteed within 9 days. The longer it sits at the Authority, the longer you’re staring at footage you can’t reach.
P.P.S. Worried it’s “too dangerous to ship safely”? That’s exactly the point — it’s why a private person can’t, and why a certified shipper must.