Tehran , Iran ( CNN ) -- An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama 's request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year . But instead of the actual drone , the company says it will send miniature toy versions . A lot of them . `` We plan to send a full squadron of 12 to the White House for President Obama as a present , '' said Reza Kioumarsi , a spokesman for the Aaye Art Group , a Tehran-based non-profit , non-governmental company that makes novelty items . The company is trying to determine what Obama 's favorite color is before sending the drones , which are 1/80th the size of the real drone , Kioumarsi said . In December , Obama said the United States has asked Iran to return the highly classified RQ-170 Sentinel drone . `` We 've asked for it back . We 'll see how the Iranians respond , '' Obama said at the time . This is probably not the response Obama was seeking . Iran has said the country 's armed forces had downed the drone near Kashmar , some 225 kilometers ( 140 miles ) from the border with Afghanistan on December . President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech in December that seemed to suggest that Iran would n't return it . `` The North Americans at best have decided to give us this spy plane , '' Ahmadinejad said . The RQ-170 Sentinel is one of the United States ' most sophisticated drones and flies at up to 50,000 feet . It is designed to evade sophisticated air defenses . One former intelligence official said it 's `` impossible to see '' and discounted Iranian claims that it had been brought down by some form of electronic counter-measures . `` It simply fell into their laps , '' he said -- after satellite communication was lost .
An Iranian company wants to send replicas of a downed drone to Obama . Iran says the plane crashed in Iranian territory on December 4 . The U.S. State Department has said it is investigating reports that an unmanned aircraft was shot down by Iran.