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Chaparral

Chaparral is Elroy Air's autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL cargo aircraft for middle-mile logistics, rapid response and military resupply. The current produc...

Facts

Company
Elroy Air
Product type
cargo_uav
Status
development
Primary capability
autonomous heavy-cargo aerial logistics
Website
https://elroyair.com/chaparral/aircraft/

About Chaparral

Wanda 2.0 mounts two eight-axis arms on a height-adjustable upper body and differential-drive mobile base. The additional arm axes support posture changes around shelves, counters and workstations, while lidar and RGB-D sensing provide localisation, obstacle detection and object perception. The two arms carry a combined load of up to 12 kg across a working reach approaching one metre.

The platform can navigate between service points, manipulate objects and execute repeated mobile-handling workflows under autonomous or supervised control. Its long-duration battery configuration supports multi-shift indoor operation. UniX AI supplies Wanda for research, logistics, retail and service applications with software interfaces, deployment engineering and end-effector integration configured around the custom…2074 tokens truncated…s been selected for United States production. Chaparral remains in flight testing and pre-production development.

Market context

generic_uav, heavy_lift_drone, Heavy-Lift Drone, drone, Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone, heavy_lift_drone

Summary

Type: Cargo VTOL

Core: Chaparral

Function: Aerial logistics

Audience: Logistics / defense

Specifications

cargo_system
Swappable multi-mission cargo pods
cruising_speed_mps
59.0 m/s m/s
forward_propellers
Four forward propellers
length
21.8 ft / 6.65 m ft
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
palletized_pod_payload_kg
227 kg kg
payload_capacity_kg
227+ kg kg
propulsion
Hybrid-electric powertrain with distributed electric propulsion
range
724 km km
vertical_propellers
Eight vertical propellers
wingspan
30.2 ft / 9.2 m ft

Operations

Environment
airspace, logistics_networks, defense_resupply
Primary user
logistics operators, defense users, humanitarian operators
Role
runway-independent heavy-cargo transport
Interaction model
autonomous mission execution with cargo-pod handling workflow
Mobility class
hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft
Product detail
generic_uav, heavy_lift_drone, Heavy-Lift Drone, drone, Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone, heavy_lift_drone

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