Established 1989, Aurora Flight Sciences is a research company focused in the development and manufacturing of advanced unmanned systems and aerospace vehicles. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia operates production plants in Bridgeport, West Virginia and Columbus, Mississippi (KGTR). Research and Development Centers are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dayton, Ohio and Mountain View, California. An European office, Aurora Swiss Aerospace, is located in Luzern, Switzerland.
Aurora Flight Sciences is a Boeing Company.
Aurora Flight Sciences is a Boeing Company.
News about Aurora Flight Sciences |
Columbia and Aurora to Enhance Aerial Firefighting
06-May-21 - Columbia Helicopters and Aurora Flight Sciences (Boeing) signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) to design an enhanced pilot situational awareness (EPSA) degraded visual environment (DVE) flight capability for aerial firefighting #firefighting
Boeing Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle First Flight
23-Jan-19 - Boeing NeXt program tests prototype to advance safety and technology of urban air mobility. Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle has design range of up to 50 miles #BoeingPAV
Autonomous Helicopter AACUS Wins Award
17-May-18 - Aurora Flight Sciences’ Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System, AACUS, recognized with the Howard Hughes Award at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
AACUS Training with US Marines
17-May-18 - Aurora’s Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System (AACUS) successfully delivered cargo to US Marines during an Integrated Training Exercise at Twentynine Palms, California
5th AHS International Event at San Francisco
18-Jan-18 - AHS International Inc, formerly the American Helicopter Society, held its 5th Annual Transformative Vertical Flight Workshop in San Francisco, California
Aurora Autonomous UH-1H in Quantico
13-Dec-17 - Aurora Flight Sciences conducted a successful demonstration at US Marine Corps base Quantico of its UH-1H optionally-piloted autonomous helicopter
Aurora Flight Sciences Became a Boeing Company
08-Nov-17 - Aurora will operate under Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology as a subsidiary called Aurora Flight Sciences, A Boeing Company. Terms of the approved deal were not disclosed
FAA Certification for Optionally Piloted UH-1H
01-Nov-17 - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a Special Airworthiness Certificate to Aurora’s optionally-piloted aircraft (OPA) UH-1H Huey helicopter
Aurora to Develop Unmanned UH-1H
10-Nov-16 - Aurora Flight Sciences ’s Tactical Autonomous Aerial Logistics System (TALOS), part of the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System (AACUS), will be integrated on a UH-1H Huey helicopter
Aurora AACUS Test New Capabilities
27-May-16 - Aurora Flight Sciences s Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) is a sensor package that when installed on an aircraft allows for it to be unmanned
Aurora Flies Subscale X-Plane Aircraft
18-Apr-16 - A subscale vehicle demonstrator (SVD) of the Aurora Flight Sciences LightningStrike (VTOL X-Plane) developed for DARPA was successfully flown at a U.S. military facility
DARPA Selects Aurora to Build VTOL X-Plane
03-Mar-16 - Aurora LightningStrike Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) has the first-ever distributed hybrid-electric propulsion system
AACUS
17-Apr-14 - US Office of Naval Research and Aurora Flight Sciences’ Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) research program.| 26-Sep-13 | S-97 Raider enters Final Assembly |
| 30-Apr-12 | Aurora Delivers Engine Nacelles to CH-53K Program |
| 09-May-07 | Sikorsky Selects CH-53K Fuselage Supplier Team |
Units within this Organisation |
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List of Aircraft |
| Model | C/N | Built | ID | |
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| UH-1H Iroquois | 13907 | 1977 | N432GC : NWH / Tubines Llc at Olimpia, WA from Feb11 : Aurora Flight Science; Sep16 conv to optionally-piloted autonomou ... : Oct17 optionally-piloted autonomous helicopter granted FAA certif ... : demo at Quantico : first time delivered cargo to US Marines in the Integrated Train ... | |
