Product profile
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 ov...
Facts
- Company
- Dufour Aerospace
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- tilt-wing cargo drone
- Website
- https://www.dufour.aero/aero-200
About Aero2 / Aero-200
Aero-200 rotates its wing and electric propellers between vertical and forward-flight positions, allowing runway-independent operation followed by efficient wingborne cruise. A two-stroke boxer engine generates electrical power in flight, creating a hybrid-electric system that avoids relying on batteries for the complete mission.
Dufour states a typical payload of 20 kilograms over 200 kilometres, maximum useful load of 38 kilograms and cruise speed around 125 kilometres per hour. The aircraft demonstrated the 20-kilogram, 200-kilometre mission profile in July 2026; serial production is targeted for 2027 and Aero-200 remains a pre-production aircraft.
Market context
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Summary
Type: UAV
Core: Tilt-wing cargo
Function: Cargo flight
Audience: Logistics
Specifications
- aircraft_class
- Tilt-wing VTOL cargo UAV
- cargo_bay
- standard 600 x 400 x 330 mm transport box
- flight_control_system
- Proprietary flight control system developed in-house
- fuel_type
- Gasoline fuel type
- long_range
- Up to 1300 km range in long-range configuration with reduced payload
- market_availability
- Serial-production aircraft targeted for 2027
- mission_lanes
- Critical cargo, medical goods, remote sensing, search and rescue, public safety and inspection missions
- mission_profile
- 20 kg payload over 200 km typical mission
- mtow
- 208 kg maximum take-off mass (MTOM)
- payload_options
- Internal payload, front loaded, slide-in external payload
- powertrain
- Hybrid-electric two-stroke boxer powertrain
- range
- Up to 400 km range in standard configuration with payload up to 40 kg
- speed_range
- 125 km/h efficient cruise speed km/h
- useful_load
- 38 kg useful load
- vtol_mode
- Runway-independent tilt-wing VTOL: takes off and lands like a helicopter, cruises like an airplane
- wingspan
- 6.12 m wingspan
Operations
- Environment
- remote_logistics_routes, critical_cargo_corridors, public_safety_airspace, remote_sensing_missions
- Primary user
- logistics_operator, public_safety_operator, critical_cargo_operator, remote_sensing_operator
- Role
- critical_cargo_delivery, remote_sensing, runway_independent_logistics
- Interaction model
- remote_supervised_autonomy, control_center_operations
- Mobility class
- aerial_vtol, tilt_wing
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Dufour Aerospace demonstrates 20 kg payload over 200 km — 2026-07-10
- Dufour and Volatus complete remote Aero-30 flight from operations control centre — 2026-05-21
- Volatus advances Dufour partnership for runway-independent cargo operations — 2026-01-27
- Volatus and Dufour Aerospace sign strategic teaming agreement for cargo, surveillance and mapping missions — 2025-02-04
- Dufour completes Aero2 hybrid-electric transition flight campaign — 2025-01-28
- Dufour Aerospace and Areion renew partnership with commitment to purchase 40 Aero2 drones — 2024-09-30