Product profile
Aurelia X8 MAX
Aurelia X8 MAX is an eight-rotor heavy-lift UAV platform sold as a ready-to-fly aircraft. It is built for payload integration and industrial drone applicat...
Facts
- Company
- Aurelia Aerospace
- Product type
- heavy_lift_uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- X8 airframe
- Website
- https://aurelia-aerospace.com/products/aurelia-x8-max
About Aurelia X8 MAX
X8 MAX uses an eight-motor layout to provide additional lift and propulsion redundancy for heavier enterprise payloads. Aurelia lists payload capacity of approximately 11 kilograms, flight time up to 50 minutes and speed reaching about 35 miles per hour.
The large central frame and open mounting system allow operators to install inspection, mapping, communications and specialised industrial equipment. An open flight-controller architecture supports ArduPilot or PX4, giving integrators access to autonomous missions, custom payload control and application-specific software.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Heavy-lift drone
Core: X8 airframe
Function: Payload flight
Audience: Drone operators
Specifications
- airframe
- Eight-rotor multirotor UAV
- autopilot
- Integrated flight controller package
- deployment_model
- Ready-to-fly heavy-lift platform
- empty_weight_kg
- 6.8 kg kg
- max_flight_time_minutes
- Up to 50 minutes min
- max_payload_kg
- 11 kg kg
- max_speed_kmh
- 56 km/h km/h
- mtow_kg
- 23.9 kg kg
- payload_integration
- Payload bay and modular integration hardware
- price
- $10,399.95 USD USD
- target_applications
- Industrial payload, inspection, and custom UAV missions
Operations
- Environment
- drone
- Primary user
- Drone operators
- Role
- Payload flight
- Interaction model
- configured_or_operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- heavy_lift_uav
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Aurelia adds long-endurance packages for three heavy-lift drones — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia reveals Q1 as its first internally designed VTOL aircraft — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia offers Auterion Skynode autonomous flight-stack configurations — 2025-04-21
- Bavovna AI trials GPS-denied autonomy on Aurelia X6 Standard — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia publishes Gremsy VIO F1 integration across its drone range — 2025-04-21