aircraft design and development

Home2026-08-16T06:43:21-04:00 Advancing the Future of Flight Explore Programs At Aurora, we design, build, and fly advanced aircraft and enabling technologies. Aurora’s agility and innovation, combined with Boeing’s scale and strength, creates an unprecedented opportunity to help our customers advance the future of flight. Have a challenge that needs solving? Contact Us What We Do Aurora delivers innovations across aircraft configurations, autonomous systems, propulsion technologies, and manufacturing processes. For over 30 years, Aurora has developed cutting-edge air vehicles and enabling technologies from concept to reality. Advanced and Uncrewed Aircraft Aurora’s experience in aircraft development spans a wide variety of experimental and prototype aircraft as well as small and large uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS). We create solutions for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.

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Electra is developing hybrid-electric Ultra Short aircraft that can take off and land in approximately 150 feet, using blown-lift aerodynamics and distributed electric propulsion. Its nine-passenger EL9 Ultra Short aircraft is intended for commercial regional travel, and the EL2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator has been used to validate the core technologies. The company also offers runway-independent airlift capabilities for defense customers.

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Hybrid Air Vehicles Limited is a Bedford, UK-based aerospace company developing Airlander, a sustainable aircraft blending aeroplane and airship technologies with hybrid lift and advanced powertrain technologies. Airlander 10 offers flexible capability for 100 passengers+, ten tonnes of payload, or five days of flight endurance for mobility, logistics, communications and surveillance roles, with up to 90% fewer emissions than alternate aircraft and zero-emissions flight targeted by 2030.

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