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# Harris Aerial

## Sitemaps
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## Posts
- [The Harris Aerial Story: Building American-Made Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/harris-aerial-story-american-made-drones/): Harris Aerial started in a UCF grad-school apartment in 2014. How we got to American-made heavy-lift drones built in Florida, and where the H4C Quad fits.
- [Line Clearance Surveys by Drone: How Utilities Measure Vegetation Encroachment](https://harrisaerial.com/line-clearance-survey-drone/): How a drone line clearance survey measures conductor-to-vegetation distance with LiDAR, where NERC FAC-003 fits, and what the aircraft has to carry.
- [NDAA Section 848 Explained: The Drone Components That Decide Compliance](https://harrisaerial.com/ndaa-section-848-drone-components/): What NDAA Section 848 restricts, component by component, what it leaves out, and how to verify a drone compliance claim before you buy.
- [Heavy-Lift Quadcopter or Hexacopter? When a 4 kg Quad Is the Right Tool](https://harrisaerial.com/heavy-lift-quadcopter/): When a heavy-lift quadcopter beats a hexacopter: payload, flight time, motor-out risk and transport, using the Carrier H4C Quad as the example.
- [How Long Can a Hybrid Drone Fly? Gas-Electric UAV Endurance Explained](https://harrisaerial.com/how-long-can-a-hybrid-drone-fly/): Up to four hours on one tank. How a gas-electric hybrid drone works, why battery multirotors cap out around an hour, the payload-versus-endurance trade, and where four hours changes the mission.
- [Powerline & Utility Inspection Drones: An NDAA-Compliant Heavy-Lift Guide](https://harrisaerial.com/powerline-utility-inspection-drones/): What actually matters in a powerline inspection drone: endurance, payload margin, and the LiDAR, thermal, and EO/IR sensors that find defects, plus why NDAA-compliant heavy-lift is the safer call for utilities.
- [Harris Aerial Wins Pitch the Press at Commercial UAV Expo](https://harrisaerial.com/harris-aerial-pitch-the-press-commercial-uav-expo/): Harris Aerial was named one of three Pitch the Press winners at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas for the H4C Quad. What happened, and who we owe thanks to.
- [NDAA-Compliant Heavy-Lift Drones: A 2026 Blue UAS Guide](https://harrisaerial.com/ndaa-compliant-heavy-lift-drones/): Blue UAS isn't the same as NDAA-compliant, and the gap can cost you a federal job. A 2026 guide to compliant heavy-lift drones and how to verify one.
- [Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Flight on the Wings of T‑Mobile 5G](https://harrisaerial.com/valmont-records-longest-bvlos-flight-on-the-wings-of-t-mobile-5g/): BELLEVUE, Wash. and OMAHA, Nebr. — June 5, 2023
- [Abandoned African American cemetery in Groveland undergoes 3D scanning](https://harrisaerial.com/abandoned-african-american-cemetery-in-groveland-undergoes-3d-scanning/): GROVELAND, Fla. — An abandoned African American cemetery in Groveland is undergoing 3D scanning to get a better idea of how many people are buried there.
- [ETM Survey Advances with Latest Technology | Harris H6 Drone with Riegl VUX-1 Lidar](https://harrisaerial.com/etm-survey-advances-with-latest-technology-harris-h6-drone-with-riegl-vux-1-lidar/): TM Surveying & Mapping, Inc. (ETM Survey), an affiliate of ETM, is eager to introduce our latest service advancement…With the help of our brand new Harris (H6-Hybrid) Drone with Riegl VUX-1 Lidar, our proprietary data processing has enabled us to provide survey grade accuracy through canopy and vegetation.  
- [Harris Aerial Launches Florida’s FIRST Hybrid Drone](https://harrisaerial.com/harris-aerial-launches-floridas-first-hybrid-drone/): Update (September 2026): the Carrier H4 Hybrid described below was Harris Aerial’s first hybrid platform. The current gas-electric hybrid drone is the Carrier H6 Hybrid EFI.
- [Carrier Hx8 Keeps First Responders Out of Harm’s Way](https://harrisaerial.com/carrier-Hx8-keeps-first-responders-out-of-harms-way/): According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there were almost 11,000 train accidents and incidents last year alone, killing 805 people and injuring almost 4,000.
- [First class in SERTC’s UAV Emergency Response Training Course is a Success!](https://harrisaerial.com/first-class-in-sertcs-uav-emergency-response-training-course-is-a-success/): The first training course for Security and Emergency Response Training Center’s “Managing Unmanned Aerial Systems in Emergency Response” (MUASER) program was a huge success! ). Attendees included Vail Mountain Rescue Group, Pueblo SWAT, Alamosa County Emergency Management, and Birmingham just to name a few. A police and fire department also attended! Our Hx8 drone was used to deliver a sensor package called an AreaRAE. It monitors 6 gases, gamma radiation, and the atmospheric conditions and sends wireless telemetry back to a laptop. The operator can link the AreaRAE up to 8 smaller gas monitors deployed around a site to get a complete picture of how the gasses are behaving. They did a 33 car train derailment as the final exercise of the day with a leaking chlorine, propane, liquid fuels, ammonia, and other hazardous materials and made the students work out the remediation of the hazardous materials using the drones. The Colorado Department of Public Safety was there to review the course for the state. Drone companies Aeryon, Leptron, Yuneec, and Skyfire came out to help as well.
- [Spray Drone LIDAR Range Finder Test](https://harrisaerial.com/spray-drone-lidar-range-finder-test/): This is our initial testing of the SF11-C LIDAR range finder. We are very happy with its accuracy! We plan on offering the terrain following upgrade with our Stark Hx8 AG Sprayer drone next Summer!

## Pages
- [Blue UAS Drones: 3 Cleared Heavy-Lift Models | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/blue-uas-drones/): Three Harris Aerial platforms are on the Blue UAS Cleared List: the Carrier H6 Electric, the Carrier H6 Hybrid EFI and the Carrier H6HL. Each one is engineered in Casselberry, Florida, built in-house in the United States, flies a Cube Orange+ running our own ArduPilot build, and is quoted to defense and federal buyers in its Blue UAS configuration. Between them they cover 5 to 40 kg of payload and 48 to 240 minutes of flight.
- [LiDAR Drones: USA-Made Heavy-Lift Platforms | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/lidar-drones/): A LiDAR drone has to lift the scanner, hold it steady enough for the IMU and GNSS to do their work, and stay up long enough to finish the corridor or the site. The eight scanners compared below weigh 1.8 to 3.4 kg before the mount. Our Carrier platforms carry 4 to 40 kg, and at 2 to 4 kg payloads our flight tests run from about 185 minutes on the H6 Hybrid EFI to about 24 minutes on the H4C at its full 4 kg.
- [DJI Ban: What Utility, Public-Safety and Government Buyers Should Do](https://harrisaerial.com/dji-ban/): No — DJI is not banned to fly. Since December 22, 2025, DJI, Autel and all foreign-produced drones sit on the FCC's Covered List, which blocks new US equipment authorizations. Aircraft you already own stay legal to operate. What is banned: federal purchases, federal grant money, and public-agency buys in a growing list of states.
- [Terms of Service](https://harrisaerial.com/terms-of-service/): Harris Aerial, LLC  ·  Effective date: August 8, 2026  ·  Last updated: August 8, 2026
- [Integrations & Demos](https://harrisaerial.com/integrations/): 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.
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- [Sentera 6x Multispectral Sensor Array](https://harrisaerial.com/sentera-6x-multispectral-sensor-array/): Multispectral, thermal, and high-resolution RGB imaging — stacked into one integrated, gimbal-stabilized payload.
- [GeoCue TrueView 641](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/geocue-trueview-641/): * { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; }
- [Harris Aerial | Official Links](https://harrisaerial.com/bio/): USA-Made Heavy-Lift Drones & UAV Systems
- [Hyspex Mjolnir S-620](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/hyspex-mjolnir-s-620/): Shortwave Infrared Hyperspectral — 970 to 2,500 nm, Cooled Detector
- [Hyspex Mjolnir V-1240](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/hyspex-mjolnir-v-1240/): High-Resolution VNIR Hyperspectral — 400 to 1,000 nm, 1240 Spatial Pixels
- [Hyspex Mjolnir VS-620](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/hyspex-mjolnir-vs-620/): Full-Range VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral — 400 to 2,500 nm, 490 Bands
- [TrueView TV1 LITE](https://harrisaerial.com/trueview-tv1-lite/): Our Most Affordable, Professional-Grade LiDAR Sensor
- [TrueView TV1](https://harrisaerial.com/trueview-tv1/): Your Gateway to Precision and Affordability in LiDAR Technology
- [TrueView 540](https://harrisaerial.com/trueview-540/): A New Standard for Accuracy and Quality in the 500 Series
- [RANGER-UAV²² FLEX](https://harrisaerial.com/phoenix-ranger-uav22-flex/): Fly It, Drive It, Mount It Anywhere — The Most Adaptable Mapping System
- [Sentera 6X Thermal Sensor | Radiometric Thermal UAV Camera | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/sentera-6x-thermal-sensor/): With four 3.2MP multispectral imagers, a 20MP RGB imager, and a FLIR Boson 320 thermal imager, the 6X Thermal ensures precise data. Its ultra-lightweight, gimballed design, high capture rate, and 512GB internal SSD storage maximize productivity.
- [Sentera 6X Thermal Pro Sensor | Dual FLIR Boson+ Radiometric | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/sentera-6x-thermal-pro-sensor/): With four 3.2MP radiometric multispectral imagers, a 20MP RGB imager, and a FLIR Boson 640 radiometric thermal imager, the 6X Thermal Pro delivers four times the resolution of the 6X Thermal, ensuring unparalleled data accuracy.
- [Sentera 6X Multispectral Sensor | NDVI & Crop Health Mapping | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/sentera-6x-multispectral-sensor/): The 6X Multispectral Sensor captures synchronized radiometric multispectral and high-resolution RGB imagery, suitable for advanced analytics, all in one single sensor and one flight.
- [Sentera 65R Global Shutter Sensor | UAV Payloads | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/sentera-65r-payload/): The Sentera 65R Sensor offers 65-megapixel global shutter RGB imagery optimized for drone operations. Its compact, lightweight design extends flight times, enhancing efficiency. With a resolution of 9344 x 7000 pixels, 3 FPS capture rate, lens variants, and live video, it ensures exceptional detail. The 65R offers plug-and-play compatibility with Harris Aerial's heavy-lift Carrier drone platforms, making it ideal for long-endurance, large-area coverage. It empowers professionals to make informed decisions with high-resolution data, significantly reducing the number of images needed for comprehensive coverage.
- [Nexus](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control/nexus/): GCS-70 · Handheld Ground Control
- [DRS-25 Drone Parachute Recovery System | 15-25 kg UAV](https://harrisaerial.com/drs-25-drone-parachute-recovery-system-15-25-kg-uav/): System built for 15–25 kg multicopters with intelligent self-monitoring and safe descent.
- [MagArrow II UAV Magnetometer](https://harrisaerial.com/magarrow-ii-uav-magnetometer/): UAV-Deployed Total-Field Magnetometer
- [UMag V2Mag™](https://harrisaerial.com/v2mag/): Ultra-Sensitive Airborne Magnetometer
- [Demonstrations & Events](https://harrisaerial.com/demonstrations-events/): Harris Aerial offers live demonstrations and training sessions that mirror your operational challenges — not generic scenarios. Whether it’s showcasing thermal inspections for utility lines, surveying difficult terrain in construction zones, or carrying mission-critical payloads in defense operations, our Carrier drones are built to handle it all.
- [H4C Quad – Compact Heavy-Lift Drone | Harris Aerial](https://harrisaerial.com/h4c-quad/): Harris Aerial — USA-Made Heavy-Lift Drone
- [ZIO](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/zio-2/): Pair the ZIO with the right Harris Aerial Carrier for your mission and operating environment.
- [VIO F1](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/vio-f1-2/): Pair the VIO F1 with the right Harris Aerial Carrier for your mission and operating environment.
- [VIO G1](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/vio-g1-2/): Pair the VIO G1 with the right Harris Aerial Carrier for your mission and operating environment.
- [Education & Research](https://harrisaerial.com/education-research/): Enhance your research and educational programs with our flexible, reliable heavy-lift drone platforms. Designed with customizable payload options, these drones easily integrate specialized research equipment to support a wide range of academic and scientific applications. Extended flight times ensure comprehensive data collection, while expert training and support empower academic teams to maximize their research potential. Elevate your research capabilities and drive discovery to new heights.
- [Custom Drone Solutions by Sector](https://harrisaerial.com/specialized-sectors/): When a stock drone can't carry your sensor, reach your endurance target, or clear your compliance bar, we engineer the platform around the mission — in-house, in Florida.
- [Ancestral Territories](https://harrisaerial.com/ancestral-territories/): Harness the power of advanced aerial technology to protect and monitor tribal lands with precision and care. Our drones offer large-area surveillance capabilities for effective land management, natural resource monitoring, and infrastructure inspection. Built for versatility, they also support emergency response efforts, providing critical real-time data when it matters most. Empower your community with innovative tools designed to preserve, protect, and support tribal sovereignty.
- [Environmental & Ecology Monitoring Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/applied-ecology/): Concrete missions a Harris environmental monitoring drone flies for consultants, researchers, conservation groups and resource agencies.
- [Coastal & Shoreline Surveying Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/coastline-surveying/): Heavy-lift UAS that fly survey-grade and bathymetric LiDAR across long coastline segments, with a water-capable Carrier H6 Hydrone for over-water work. Designed and machined in Florida.
- [Military Heavy-Lift Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/military/): American-made heavy-lift UAS platforms for defense operators who can’t compromise on payload, endurance, or supply-chain security — carrying the ISR, logistics, and EOD payloads the mission demands.
- [Utility & Powerline Inspection Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/utility-inspection/): Yes — Harris Aerial builds heavy-lift Carrier UAS that work as a single utility inspection drone across transmission and distribution lines, carrying survey-grade LiDAR and EO/IR thermal payloads on one flight and swapping sensors in the field between corridors. Hybrid and hydrogen powertrains give the multi-hour endurance a many-line-mile sortie needs, while modular payload bays return the georeferenced clearance and hotspot data your crews act on.
- [DOT & Transportation Infrastructure Inspection Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/department-of-transportation/): Heavy-lift Carrier UAS that fly survey LiDAR and high-resolution RGB together, so one sortie returns georeferenced point clouds and imagery of bridges, pavement, and rail corridors. Designed and machined in Florida for state DOT procurement.
- [NDAA-Compliant Drones for Federal & Government Operations](https://harrisaerial.com/federal-government-safety/): In practice it means the aircraft — and critical components like the flight controller, radio, camera, and ground control software — is not manufactured by or sourced from a covered foreign country. The NDAA restricts the Department of Defense, and increasingly other federal agencies, from buying or operating drones that fail that test. So an NDAA-compliant drone is really a statement about the supply chain, not about flight performance.
- [Energy & Power-Infrastructure Inspection Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/energy-construction/): Carry thermal, RGB, and LiDAR on one heavy-lift flight to inspect solar farms, substations, power plants, and active construction sites, with the multi-hour endurance to cover a full site in a single sortie.
- [Forestry & Wildfire Response Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/forest-service/): Heavy-lift, multi-hour UAS that carry thermal, LiDAR, and multispectral sensors deep into the backcountry, built in Florida for the agencies that manage America's forests and fight its fires.
- [C-SRoC](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control-2/c-sroc/): Talk to a Harris Aerial specialist about deploying the C-SRoC with your Carrier airframe, your radio module, and your DoD compliance pathway.
- [Ground Control](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control-2/): Every Harris GCS speaks the same MAVLink, runs the same HA QGC, and connects to every Carrier airframe. Pick the form factor that matches the mission.
- [Sony ILX-LR1](https://harrisaerial.com/sony-ilx-lr1/): Pair the Sony ILX-LR1 with the right Harris Aerial Carrier for your mission and operating environment.
- [Hx8 Tether](https://harrisaerial.com/hx8-tether/): Harris Aerial — Tethered Heavy-Lift
- [Hx8 Models](https://harrisaerial.com/hx8-lander/): One proven coaxial platform. Two distinct mission profiles.
- [Zond Aero 1000](https://harrisaerial.com/zond-aero-1000/): The Zond Aero 1000 'NG' is a lightweight, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar for medium-lift drones. Its New-Generation high-speed controller uses real-time sampling (RTS) to deliver clean data with a high signal-to-noise ratio — ideal for profiling snow and ice and detecting small shallow objects on Harris Aerial Carrier airframes.

## About Harris Aerial
Harris Aerial designs and manufactures heavy-lift industrial UAV platforms and the ground control
hardware that flies them, from Casselberry, Florida. Airframes are sold as complete mission systems:
a Carrier-series aircraft, a payload, and a handheld ground control station, matched to the job.
Contact: info@harrisaerial.com · (407) 725-7886 · 1043 Seminola Blvd, Casselberry, FL 32707.

## Key Pages
- [NEXUS Ground Control Station](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control/nexus/): Rugged handheld drone ground control station. 7-inch 1920x1200 display at 1500 NIT, Qualcomm QCS6490 with a 12 TOPS on-device AI engine, Android 16, hot-swappable 50 Wh battery, IP54, MIL-STD-810H vibration tested, under 1.2 kg. Interchangeable radio bay accepts Microhard pDDL2450 or Silvus StreamCaster 4200EP modules.
- [C-Navigator](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control/c-navigator/): Handheld ground control station with an 8-inch HD touchscreen and real-time low-latency video.
- [C-SRoC](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control-2/c-sroc/): Compact short-range operator controller.
- [Ground Control Stations](https://harrisaerial.com/ground-control/): Overview of the Harris Aerial ground control hardware line.
- [Carrier Drones](https://harrisaerial.com/carrier-drones/): The Carrier heavy-lift airframe family, including all-electric, hybrid gas-electric, hydrogen fuel cell and high-capacity battery power systems.
- [Carrier H6 Electric](https://harrisaerial.com/carrier-drones/carrier-h6-electric/): All-electric Carrier H6 hexacopter.
- [HX8](https://harrisaerial.com/hx8-lander/): HX8 octocopter platform.
- [HX8 Tether](https://harrisaerial.com/hx8-tether/): Tethered HX8 for persistent aerial infrastructure and continuous ground-powered flight.
- [H4C Quad](https://harrisaerial.com/h4c-quad/): Compact heavy-lift quadcopter.
- [Payloads](https://harrisaerial.com/payloads/): Integrated sensor payloads including Hyspex hyperspectral, GeoCue LiDAR, Sentera multispectral and VIO/ZIO gimbals.
- [DRS-25 Parachute Recovery System](https://harrisaerial.com/drs-25-drone-parachute-recovery-system-15-25-kg-uav/): Drone parachute recovery system for 15-25 kg UAVs.
- [Applications](https://harrisaerial.com/applications/): Utility inspection, agriculture, surveying, fire prevention, logistics and government mission profiles.
- [Contact](https://harrisaerial.com/contact/): Talk to a Harris Aerial specialist about pairing an airframe, payload and ground control station.