ART Quimbaya
Colombian tactical surveillance aircraft offered by CIAC for military, police and government observation tasks.
- Country / region
- Colombia
- Programme status
- Supplier-reported status
- Sources reviewed
- 20 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Corporación de la Industria Aeronáutica Colombiana (CIAC)
- Origin / production countries
- Colombia
- Other names
- Quimbaya
- Variants / configurations
- See the named configuration and evidence notes
- Operators / programme customers
- Not confirmed in the reviewed public sources
Evidence & current status
CIAC documents a marketed system and industrialisation programme. Specific military acceptance, current fleet size and full design lineage were not established.
Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Launch / recovery
- Automatic take-off and landing
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Propulsion
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Dimensions
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Mass
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Endurance
- 8 hours
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Range
- 100 km operating range
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Speed
- 100 km/h cruise
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Altitude
- Operating ceiling up to 12,000 ft
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source - Payload
- 7 kg total: 4 kg camera and 3 kg electronics
Manufacturer allocation; not seven kilograms of additional spare payload capacity.
Source - Sensors
- Electro-optical / infrared imaging
Manufacturer-described system.
Source - Communications / navigation
- Encrypted datalink and autopilot
Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance.
Source