Corvo PPDS
Australian lightweight expendable logistics aircraft supplied to Ukraine, with a supplier-described reconnaissance adaptation.
- Country / region
- Australia
- Programme status
- In service / use documented
- Sources reviewed
- 20 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Cargo aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- SYPAQ
- Origin / production countries
- Australia
- Other names
- Precision Payload Delivery System
- Variants / configurations
- Corvo PPDS baseline; PPDS-HL: separate heavy-lift derivative
- Operators / programme customers
- Ukraine — deliveries confirmed by SYPAQ
Evidence & current status
Public sources establish the programme; unspecified capabilities, configurations and inventories are not inferred.
Role & capabilities
- Cargo aircraft
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Small fixed-wing expendable logistics aircraft
Published source figure; applicability depends on the cited configuration.
Source - Launch / recovery
- Autonomous flight and unassisted landing described
Published source figure; applicability depends on the cited configuration.
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
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Range
- Up to 120 km flight distance
Supplier wording does not establish a guaranteed loaded mission radius.
Source - Speed
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Altitude
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Payload
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Sensors
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source - Communications / navigation
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source