Product profile
Aurelia X8 Pro
Aurelia X8 Pro is a ready-to-fly professional octocopter for industrial payload and inspection missions. The aircraft carries up to 10 kg, flies for up to...
Facts
- Company
- Aurelia Aerospace
- Product type
- heavy_lift_uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Fly large payloads
- Website
- https://aurelia-aerospace.com/products/aurelia-x8-pro
About Aurelia X8 Pro
X8 Pro is Aurelia's safety-equipped eight-rotor platform for large camera, survey and specialised industrial payloads. Its open-source flight-control architecture supports mission planning and customer-specific integrations, while the standard rescue parachute adds a recovery layer for higher-value operations.
Aurelia lists a 10 kg payload rating, flight time up to 50 minutes and 56 km/h maximum speed. The aircraft is sold in ready-to-fly configurations through the company's store.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Heavy-lift drone
Core: Safety-equipped octocopter
Function: Fly large payloads
Audience: Industrial operators
Specifications
- airframe
- Eight-rotor octocopter
- compliance
- NDAA Section 848 and TAA compliant configurations
- flight_controller_options
- Cube Orange+ or Cube Blue
- flight_software
- ArduPilot standard; PX4 on request
- max_flight_time_minutes
- Up to 50 minutes min
- max_payload_kg
- 10 kg kg
- price
- $16,999.95 USD USD
- support_model
- Lifetime product support
Operations
- Environment
- outdoor airspace, industrial sites
- Primary user
- industrial drone operators, systems integrators
- Role
- heavy payload inspection and survey
- Interaction model
- operator-supervised and programmed missions
- Mobility class
- foldable octocopter UAV
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Aurelia adds long-endurance packages for three heavy-lift drones — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia reveals Q1 as its first internally designed VTOL aircraft — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia offers Auterion Skynode autonomous flight-stack configurations — 2025-04-21
- Bavovna AI trials GPS-denied autonomy on Aurelia X6 Standard — 2025-04-21
- Aurelia publishes Gremsy VIO F1 integration across its drone range — 2025-04-21