diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b8cfd9a42d..d25be1f9df 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "modules/gbenchmark"]
 	path = modules/gbenchmark
 	url = git://github.com/google/benchmark.git
+[submodule "modules/mavlink"]
+	path = modules/mavlink
+	url = git://github.com/diydrones/mavlink
diff --git a/modules/mavlink b/modules/mavlink
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..b006861696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mavlink
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b006861696f3582f984cbd37caeedaf371548dc7