Aero2 / Aero-200
Aero-200, formerly Aero2, is Dufour Aerospace uncrewed tilt-wing aircraft for cargo delivery and remote sensing. It is designed to carry useful payloads over long distances while taking off and landing vertically without runway infrastructure.
Facts
- Company: Dufour Aerospace
- Product type: UAV
- Status: Tilt Wing Cargo Drone
- Website: https://www.dufour.aero/aero2
Market context
Aero2/Aero-200 is Dufour's tilt-wing uncrewed aircraft line for critical cargo, logistics and remote sensing.
- Target environment: Regional cargo routes, public-safety missions and runway-independent operating sites.
- Workflow context: Vertical takeoff, wingborne cruise, remote operations and critical payload transport.
- Customer context: Cargo operators, public-safety organizations, medical logistics teams and remote sensing users.
- Deployment model: Aircraft product moving through flight testing, partner operations and pre-commercial ecosystem buildout.
- Commercial maturity: Pre-commercial platform with official product positioning, hybrid-electric flight milestones and partner operations work.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on certification, reliability, payload-range proof, control-center operations and customer route economics.
- Market position: Hybrid-electric tilt-wing cargo UAV for runway-independent logistics.
- Adjacent products: Wingcopter, Dronamics Black Swan, Dufour Aero3
Workflow
Vertical takeoff, wingborne cruise, remote operations and critical payload transport.
Capability
VTOL unmanned aircraft, Autonomous drone operations
Deployment environment
Regional cargo routes, public-safety missions and runway-independent operating sites.
Specifications
- Aircraft Class: Tilt-wing VTOL cargo UAV
- Wingspan: 6.12 m wingspan
- Useful Load: 38 kg useful load
- Mission Profile: 20 kg payload over 200 km typical mission
- Payload Options: Internal payload, front loaded, slide-in external payload
- Speed Range: 125 km/h efficient cruise speed km/h
- Mtow: 208 kg maximum take-off mass (MTOM)
- Powertrain: Hybrid-electric two-stroke boxer powertrain
- Fuel Type: Gasoline fuel type
- Flight Control System: Proprietary flight control system developed in-house
- Range: Up to 400 km range in standard configuration with payload up to 40 kg
- Long Range: Up to 1300 km range in long-range configuration with reduced payload
- Cargo Bay: standard 600 x 400 x 330 mm transport box
- Vtol Mode: Runway-independent tilt-wing VTOL: takes off and lands like a helicopter, cruises like an airplane
- Market Availability: Serial-production aircraft targeted for 2027
- Mission Lanes: Critical cargo, medical goods, remote sensing, search and rescue, public safety and inspection missions
Tags
- Peer Group: VTOL UAV builder
- Workflow: Disaster-response aerial assessment
- Capability: VTOL unmanned aircraft, Autonomous drone operations
Timeline / Research
- 2026-05-21 - Demonstration - Dufour and Volatus complete remote Aero-30 flight from operations control centre - Dufour Aerospace integrated its platform into the Volatus Operations Control Centre in Canada to support re…
- 2025-01-28 - Demonstration - Dufour completes Aero2 hybrid-electric transition flight campaign - Dufour Aerospace completed a flight-test campaign with an in-house hybrid-electric system for the Aero2 drone. The aircraf…
Sources
- C:/Users/Alex/Downloads/Untitled - 07 April 2026 at 11.37.16 (10).png
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