Sprig Aerospace
"Get. Work. Done."
Kentucky-based manufacturer of the S1000 heavy-lift agricultural spray drone, offering 1,000 lb payload capacity for precision crop treatment.
Sprig Aerospace, LLC is a Kentucky-based aerospace manufacturer that selected Paducah, Kentucky as its operational home base, as described in a January 2024 post on the company's own blog. The company designs and builds heavy-lift unmanned aerial systems for agricultural applications, combining in-house software development, product design, engineering and production capabilities that it describes as backed by more than 100 years of combined team industry experience.
The company's flagship product is the S1000 Sprayer, a heavy-lift aerial-application drone built for row-crop and specialty-crop spraying. As described on the company's site, the S1000 carries up to a 1,000-pound payload, offers up to two hours of flight time, uses an aviation-grade spray system, and is powered by a hybrid generation system rather than battery power alone. The company states the platform can cover roughly 120 acres per hour at an application rate of 5 gallons per acre, positioning it against traditional crewed aerial application aircraft and smaller battery-electric spray drones on a per-hour coverage basis. The S1000 was marketed on the company's site as a 2025 product launch.
In addition to its own S1000 platform, Sprig Aerospace has taken on a distribution role for third-party agricultural drone hardware: in July 2026 the company entered a distributor partnership with Powerus covering the xFold line of agricultural drones, extending Sprig's addressable product range for U.S. row-crop and specialty-crop customers beyond its own hardware. The company's development team has also discussed applying machine-learning methods to crop-health analysis as a complementary data capability for its spray operations.
Sprig Aerospace can be reached at its Paducah, Kentucky office (42001) by phone at (386) 316-1145 or by email at [email protected]. The company maintains a LinkedIn company page and uses the tagline Get. Work. Done. on its marketing materials. Public information on the company's exact founding year, total headcount, and any third-party certifications was not available on the company's website at the time of this record; copyright notices on its site date from 2024, consistent with recent-stage operations rather than a long-established manufacturer.
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S1000 Sprayer
- Model: S1000
- Launch Year: 2025
Heavy-lift agricultural spray UAS with 1,000 lb payload capacity, hybrid power generation, and 120 acres/hour coverage rate.
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