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Advancedaerospace /autonomous ops.
Long-endurance VTOL mapping, LiDAR surveying and precision monitoring — engineered for New Zealand's toughest terrain. Fully CAA Part 102 exposition certified.
CAA
Part 102
ENDURANCE
90 MIN
PRECISION
±1 CM
COVERAGE
700 HA/FLIGHT
UPTIME
99.4%
◇ Core Pillars · 001–003
Three operationaldisciplines. Oneengineered system.
Every mission is planned, flown, logged and delivered under a single exposition — from paddock to pipeline. Below: the disciplines we run at industrial scale.

Autonomous Flying
Long-endurance VTOL and fixed-wing missions with cm-level PPK precision. Civilian survey-grade platforms flown across rugged NZ terrain.
Explore capability
Aerial Surveying
High-resolution photogrammetry, LiDAR, and orthomosaic mapping. Bankable data for civil engineering & construction.
Explore capabilityPrecision Monitoring
Thermal, multispectral and asset inspection flights — repeatable, timestamped, exposition-compliant.
Explore capability◇ Aotearoa Ops
Rugged geography.Uncompromising data.
Alpine ridgelines, coastal farms, remote catchments. Our platforms are built to fly where the paperwork usually stops.
◇ Manifesto
A field guideto the way we operate.
We fly by exposition.
Every mission executed under a documented CAA Part 102 exposition — not a promise, a certified operating system.
Data is the deliverable.
Flight time is a means. What lands on your desk is centimetre-accurate, timestamped, audit-ready intelligence.
Payload agnostic.
VTOL mapping, LiDAR, multispectral, thermal, bespoke sensors — we integrate to the mission, not the other way around.
Engineered locally.
Mechanics, electronics, aerospace systems. In-house maintenance and integration means uptime you can plan against.