Elroy Air’s Autonomous Chaparral Delivers Lunch on A-to-B Flight
Company aims to build its first production-intent Chaparral aircraft in 2026 before ramping up to high-rate production.
Company aims to build its first production-intent Chaparral aircraft in 2026 before ramping up to high-rate production.
With support from Kratos, the company aims to churn out hundreds of drones per year.
Company’s middle-mile cargo drone successfully transitions from vertical to wingborne forward flight.
Flight testing of Elroy’s Chaparral, a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (hVTOL) design, is scheduled to begin in July.
The company calls the aircraft a turbogenerator-hyrbid electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—hVTOL, for short—and claims it’s the first of its kind to fly.
The Houston-based firm primarily operates helicopter services but is looking to expand its portfolio with aircraft from Elroy and others.
Firm now boasts orders for more than 900 autonomous cargo drones