USA-Made · NDAA-Compliant Drones
Applications · Field-Verified Use Cases

Built for the work
that matters

Heavy-lift drones, built in the USA, custom-integrated for the work that matters — every drone+payload combination on this page has been field-verified on Harris Aerial hardware

USA-Made NDAA-Compliant Heavy-Lift Specialists
Verified Industries

Drone + Payload, Field-Verified

Each card pairs a Harris Aerial airframe with a payload integration we’ve flown and validated — mapped strictly to sensors listed on our payloads page.

Verified 01 · Survey
Carrier H4C Phoenix Ranger 120 LiDAR
Survey & Mapping

Compact-Class LiDAR Demo — TopoDOT 2026

The compact-class H4C carries the Phoenix Ranger 120 for survey-grade LiDAR capture — flown as a live demonstration at the TopoDOT 2026 conference to showcase clean, dense point clouds from a small, rapidly deployable airframe.

Drone
Carrier H4C
Payload
Phoenix Ranger 120
Verified 02 · Survey
Carrier H6 EFI Hybrid Phoenix Ranger UAV22 Flex
Survey & Mapping

Hybrid-Endurance LiDAR Demo — TopoDOT 2026

The H6 Hybrid EFI brings extended-endurance flight to the Phoenix Ranger UAV22 Flex — demonstrated at the TopoDOT 2026 conference, pairing long-duration sorties with survey-grade LiDAR to map wide corridors and large sites in a single flight.

Drone
Carrier H6 Hybrid EFI
Payload
Phoenix Ranger UAV 22 Flex
Verified 03 · Multi-Sensor Agri
Carrier H4C
Sentera 65R Sentera 6x Multispectral SPH Engineering MagNIMBUS SPH EchoSounder
Multi-Sensor Agriculture

Four Sensors · One Compact-Class Drone

Sentera 65R, Sentera 6x, SPH Engineering MagNIMBUS, and SPH EchoSounder — all integrated on the H4C in a single multi-sensor agriculture stack for high-accuracy survey, magnetometry, and bathymetric profiling.

Drone
Carrier H4C
Payload
Sentera 65R + 6x · SPH MagNIMBUS + EchoSounder
Verified 04 · Development
Carrier H6 Heavy-Lift HySpex VS-620 hyperspectral imager
Development Projects

Hyperspectral Targeting & Mining Surveys

HySpex VS-620 paired with the H6 Heavy-Lift for hyperspectral flight planning, targeting, and mining-survey data collection over developmental and surveying acreage.

Drone
Carrier H6 Heavy-Lift
Payload
HySpex VS-620
Verified 05 · Security
Carrier H6 EFI NextVision Raptor EO/IR camera
Security & Law Enforcement

EO/IR Overwatch on a Hybrid Airframe

The NextVision Raptor integrates via the Carrier Ground Control System for advanced aerial surveillance — daylight color, low-light, and thermal in a single gimbal.

Drone
Carrier H6 EFI
Payload
NextVision Raptor
Verified 06 · Route Clearance
Carrier HX8 V2MAG Dual-Quantum Magnetometer
Tactical Route Clearance

UXO + Landmine Detection at Survey Speed

Field-tested with Dual-Quantum sensor technology at survey speeds up to 8 m/s — real-time UXO and landmine detection for route clearance and EOD support.

Drone
Carrier HX8
Payload
UMAG V2MAG
Verified 07 · LiDAR
Carrier H6 Electric Phoenix Ranger 120 LiDAR
LiDAR Remote Sensing

Forestry Mapping over Loblolly Pine Progeny Trials

Flown with NC State across dense pine canopies to identify optimal pulse repetition rates for forestry mapping — the H6 Electric carries high-density LiDAR for canopy and ground-return analysis.

Drone
Carrier H6 Electric
Payload
Phoenix Ranger 120
Verified 08 · Agriculture
Carrier H4C Sentera 6x Multispectral camera
Agriculture

Multispectral Data over the Jupiter Inlet

The compact-class H4C deployed for high-accuracy multispectral and environmental data collection — row-by-row crop health, water stress, and canopy index in a single mission.

Drone
Carrier H4C
Payload
Sentera 6x Multispectral
Verified 09 · Infrastructure
Carrier H6 Electric RIEGL VUX-120 LiDAR sensor
Infrastructure

DOT Highway LiDAR Survey — Presented at IHEEP

High-density survey-grade LiDAR paired with the H6 Electric for DOT highway engineering altimeter clearance tests — results presented at the International Highway Engineering Exchange Program.

Drone
Carrier H6 Electric
Payload
Survey-Grade VUX-120 LiDAR
Verified 10 · Utility
Carrier HX8 Drone-mounted winch and tethered hook for line-pulling
Utility Inspection

Power-Line Pulling · Grid Asset Inspection

The HX8 was verified in a physical power-line pulling demonstration — tethered hook lowered from the airframe to a ground winch, enabling line-pulling across rivers, ravines, and inaccessible terrain.

Drone
Carrier HX8
Payload
Tethered Hook & Winch
Field Footage

Field-Tested · On the Record

Cuts from real Harris Aerial deployments — airframes, payloads, and operators in the environments they were built for.

Route Clearance
Field Demo

Carrier HX8 + V2MAG Dual-Quantum Magnetometer

Survey speeds up to 8 m/s with real-time data processing — pinpointing UXO with centimeter-level accuracy across 6 hectares per hour.

DRONE · HX8  ·  PAYLOAD · UMAG V2MAG
Sensor Stack
Field Demo

Harris Aerial Drones + SPH Engineering Sensors

Multi-sensor integration across the Harris fleet with SPH Engineering — ground-truthed sensor stacks for survey-grade output.

DRONES · Carrier Fleet  ·  PARTNER · SPH Engineering

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