Product profile
Albatross UAV
Albatross is Applied Aeronautics’ configurable ready-to-fly fixed-wing UAS. It combines up to four hours of endurance, 100 km range and 2–4.4 kg of battery...
Facts
- Company
- Applied Aeronautics
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- long-endurance fixed-wing aerial operations
- Website
- https://store.appliedaeronautics.com/albatross-uav-rtf/
About Albatross UAV
Albatross is Applied Aeronautics’ ready-to-fly electric fixed-wing UAS for mapping, surveying, agriculture, environmental monitoring, public safety and research. Its modular fuselage accepts cameras, LiDAR, communications and edge-compute options, with autonomous takeoff, mission execution and landing through a PX4-compatible controller.
The three-metre-span aircraft has a 10-kilogram maximum takeoff weight and carries two to 4.4 kilograms depending on battery configuration. Endurance reaches four hours and operational range exceeds 100 kilometres, while cruise and maximum level speeds are 18 and 40 metres per second. The RTF system is a configured aircraft, distinct from the airframe-only and kit listings.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Fixed-wing UAS
Core: Four-hour endurance
Function: Map and survey
Audience: Professional operators
Specifications
- cruising_speed_mps
- Cruise speed 18 m/s
- max_flight_time_minutes
- Up to four hours 240 min
- max_range_km
- More than 100 km
- max_speed_mps
- Maximum level speed 40 m/s
- maximum_takeoff_weight_kg
- Maximum takeoff weight 10 kg
- payload_capacity_kg_range
- 2–4.4 kg depending on battery configuration
- power_propulsion
- All-electric fixed-wing propulsion
- wingspan_m
- Wingspan 3 m
Operations
- Deployment environment
- outdoor survey areas, remote operating sites, wide-area aerial missions
- Primary user
- UAS operators, survey teams, industrial inspection teams
- Workflow
- mapping, inspection, aerial data capture
- Interaction model
- pilot-supervised autonomy, mission-configured flight
- Mobility class
- fixed-wing UAV
- Product detail
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