Harris Aerial Timeline

Events

• 2023-06-05 - Deployment - Harris H6E completes 77-mile BVLOS inspection - Valmont and T-Mobile announced the completed flight on June 5, 2023. The Harris H6E flew the 77-mile Texas route in under three hours with a connected Sony camera while inspecting power lines, railways and bridges. The mission transferred live data over 5G… - source: harrisaerial.com
• 2022-05-09 - Deployment - Harris Aerial maps historic Groveland cemetery - Harris Aerial documented the Groveland, Florida survey on May 9, 2022. A Harris drone carried RIEGL sensing equipment over dense vegetation to help identify graves and reconstruct the cemetery layout. The mission demonstrated a public-interest mapping use… - source: harrisaerial.com
• 2022-05-04 - Deployment - Harris Aerial HX8 enters SurvTech’s LiDAR survey fleet - The survey configuration carried SurvTech’s RIEGL VUX-1 LiDAR payload on the electric coaxial aircraft. Sarasota National Cemetery’s noise policy ruled out the team’s gas-hybrid H6, which made electric operation useful for that project. SurvTech compared the… - source: survtechsolutions.com
• 2019-07-09 - Partnership - LiDARUSA integrates scanners with Harris hybrid multicopters - The gas-electric aircraft can power heavy-lift multicopter missions for as long as five hours. A Carrier H6 can carry a three-kilogram A-series scanner for about two and a half hours. Longer endurance lets operators cover large rural survey areas with fewer… - source: expouav.com
• 2018-02-15 - Product Launch - Harris Aerial launches Carrier H4 Hybrid - Harris Aerial dated the Carrier H4 Hybrid launch to February 15, 2018. The platform was specified to fly for more than two hours with a payload near 10 pounds and nearly five hours without a payload. Harris targeted search and rescue, disaster response and… - source: harrisaerial.com