Facts

• Company: Elroy Air
• Product type: Cargo UAV
• Status: active
• Capability focus: Autonomous Heavy Cargo Aerial Logistics
• Website: https://elroyair.com/chaparral/aircraft/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Chaparral is Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL cargo UAS for middle-mile logistics, rapid response and military resupply. Elroy lists 500+ lb payload capacity, up to 450 miles of range and swappable cargo pods for different mission profiles.

Overview

Chaparral is Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL cargo UAS for middle-mile logistics, rapid response and military resupply. Elroy lists 500+ lb payload capacity, up to 450 miles of range and swappable cargo pods for different mission profiles.

Market context

Chaparral is Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL cargo UAS for middle-mile logistics, rapid response and military resupply. Elroy lists 500+ lb payload capacity, up to 450 miles of range and swappable cargo pods for different mission profiles.

Audience

Logistics / defense

Workflow

autonomous heavy-cargo aerial logistics

Capability

autonomous heavy-cargo aerial logistics

Deployment environment

Chaparral operating environments

Positioning tags

• Audience: Logistics / defense
• Workflow: autonomous heavy-cargo aerial logistics
• Capability: autonomous heavy-cargo aerial logistics
• Deployment environment: Chaparral operating environments

Specifications

• Cruise Speed: 132 mph / 115 kt mph
• Range: 450 mi / 724 km mi
• Payload Capacity: 500+ lb / 227+ kg lb
• Wingspan: 30.2 ft / 9.2 m ft
• Length: 21.8 ft / 6.65 m ft
• Propulsion: Hybrid-electric powertrain with distributed electric propulsion
• Vertical Propellers: Eight vertical propellers
• Forward Propellers: Four forward propellers
• Cargo System: Swappable multi-mission cargo pods
• Palletized Pod Payload: 500 lb / 227 kg lb
• Palletized Pod Capacity: 19.15 ft³ / 0.54 m³ ft3
• Palletized Pod Dimensions: 6 L x 2.3 W x 1.4 H ft / 1.8 L x 0.7 W x 0.42 H m

Tags

• Peer Group: Heavy-lift cargo UAV, Aerial delivery UAV
• Capability: Cargo Uav Payload Lift

Timeline / Research

• 2026-01-08 - Partnership - Barq Group and Elroy Air sign initial Abu Dhabi Chaparral manufacturing JV agreement - The framework covers a planned Abu Dhabi facility for Chaparral manufacturing and services in the MENA re…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Planned Production Path - First production Chaparral aircraft planned for 2026; no production rate or capacity disclosed - 2025-09-23 - Kratos was named exclusive U.S. manufacturing partner for Chaparral under a five-ye…