Product profile
Carrier H6HL
Carrier H6HL is Harris Aerial's foldable heavy-lift hexacopter for professional equipment and scientific instruments. The official page specifies up to 40...
Facts
- Company
- Harris Aerial
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- heavy_lift_payload_transport
- Website
- https://harrisaerial.com/carrier-drones/carrier-h6hl/
About Carrier H6HL
Carrier H6HL is Harris Aerial's foldable heavy-lift hexacopter for professional equipment and scientific instruments. The official page specifies up to 40 kg of payload, 48 minutes with no payload and a 95 kg maximum takeoff weight.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Extreme heavy-lift hexacopter
Core: 40 kg mission payload
Function: Transports large professional payloads for survey, utility, rescue and industrial missions
Audience: Survey teams, utility operators, public-safety teams and defense users
Specifications
- data_range_km
- 20 km
- empty_weight_kg
- 55 kg
- flight_controller
- Cube Orange+ with custom ArduPilot
- flight_time_at_20kg_min
- 30 min
- flight_time_at_40kg_min
- 15 min
- frame_type
- Foldable patented hexacopter
- ip_rating
- IP43
- max_flight_time_min
- No payload min
- max_horizontal_speed_m_s
- 15 m/s
- max_payload_kg
- 40 kg
- max_takeoff_weight_kg
- 95 kg
- payload_interface
- Universal quick-release connector with UART, Ethernet, CAN and GPIO
- positioning
- Dual RTK GNSS
- service_ceiling_ft
- 12000 ft
- wingspan_deployed_mm
- Prop tip to tip mm
Operations
- Environment
- outdoor_operations, industrial_sites, utility_infrastructure, search_and_rescue
- Primary user
- industrial_inspection_teams, surveying_teams, public_safety_operators, robot_integrators
- Role
- heavy_lift_payload_transport, aerial_inspection, aerial_mapping, autonomous_drone_operations
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, remote_teleoperation, payload_integration
- Mobility class
- multirotor_uav, heavy_payload_uav
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Harris H6E completes 77-mile BVLOS inspection — 2023-06-05
- Harris Aerial maps historic Groveland cemetery — 2022-05-09
- LiDARUSA integrates scanners with Harris hybrid multicopters — 2019-07-09
- Harris Aerial launches Carrier H4 Hybrid — 2018-02-15