Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Aeronautics
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Current NG baseline; Legacy Aerostar configurations require separate dated data
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Supplier information is attributed; performance and operational acceptance require configuration-specific evidence.
Aerostar NG is the current Aeronautics offering in its long-running Aerostar surveillance family. The supplier describes a runway-operated aircraft with a large modular payload bay and automatic take-off and landing. The present page supplies a two-hundred-and-forty-kilogram technical baseline.
Claims about more than two decades of Aerostar activity describe the family’s heritage. They do not establish that the present NG configuration has accumulated the entire quoted flight history, or that every earlier customer has received an upgrade. This profile keeps that distinction visible.
Imaging, radar, maritime identification and electronic-surveillance equipment appear as options. The aircraft’s maximum payload allowance is not a promise that all options can be installed together at maximum endurance. Model-specific customer acceptance and configuration changes should be linked to their own dated sources. The catalogue preserves a current supplier baseline without converting family-wide marketing into a detailed operational fleet register.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Runway-operated fixed wing | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Automatic runway take-off and landing | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Mass | 240 kg maximum take-off | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Endurance | More than 12 hours | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Speed | 100 knots maximum | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Up to 40 kg | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Sensors | EO/IR, radar, AIS and electronic-surveillance options | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
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