Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero)
"Accelerating Advanced Aerospace Projects"
Full-service aerospace engineering firm and AV company designing, AS9100-manufacturing and testing electric aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero), an AV (AeroVironment) Company, is a full-service aerospace engineering firm in San Luis Obispo, California, focused on the development and AS9100-certified manufacturing of innovative, efficient, and sustainable electric aircraft technologies for advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems. The company combines electric aircraft R&D, engineering design and design-for-manufacturing (DFM), AS9100 certified machining and assembly, and rapid prototyping and testing to take aerospace projects from concept through production. ESAero is known for its role in NASA's X-57 Maxwell distributed electric propulsion demonstrator and develops a portfolio of unmanned aircraft and supporting hardware. Its product line includes LUMBERJACK, a Group III send-and-forget launched-effect UAS with autonomous target sensing and multi-strike capability; VESA, a VTOL electric small aircraft counter-UAS platform with onboard object detection, tracking, and swarm deployment; FAST-ISR and FAST swarm UAS for ISR and utility missions; the IE-SOAR lightweight hydrogen fuel cell system developed with Intelligent Energy; and the EDS Series dynamometers for electric propulsion testing.
Core capabilities span CFD and structural analysis, electric and hybrid propulsion integration, signature-managed survivability, and modular field-configurable payloads. The firm supports both manned and unmanned platforms, serving defense and advanced air mobility customers. Following its acquisition by AeroVironment, ESAero strengthens AV's manufacturing capabilities in electric and unmanned aviation, supplying engineered airframes, propulsion testing equipment, and complete autonomous aircraft systems.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
LUMBERJACK
Group III send-and-forget launched-effect UAS with autonomous target sensing and multi-strike capability.
VESA
VTOL electric small aircraft counter-UAS with onboard object detection, tracking, and swarm deployment.
EDS Series Dynamometer
Dynamometer series for testing and characterizing electric aircraft propulsion systems.
IE-SOAR
Lightweight hydrogen fuel cell power system for extended-endurance unmanned aircraft, developed with Intelligent Energy.
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