Role & capabilities
- Tactical reconnaissance
- Infrastructure observation
- Environmental survey
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- CIAC
- Origin / production countries
- Colombia
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Standard hand-launched version; COELUM VTOL prototype
- Operators / programme customers
- Colombian Aerospace Force — purchased systems
Evidence & current status
Three system sales documented in company reporting; VTOL prototype testing does not establish VTOL service.
COELUM is CIAC's small reconnaissance aircraft for military and civilian observation. The established industrial version is a fixed-wing, hand-launched design. CIAC's 2022 management report distinguishes that baseline from a proposed vertical-take-off-and-landing derivative, whose engineering work was beginning separately. The two configurations should not be treated as interchangeable aircraft simply because they share a name.
The current product page advertises more than sixty minutes of endurance and describes surveillance, reconnaissance and environmental-monitoring applications. This profile uses that conservative current claim rather than combining historical test flights and different endurance figures into one supposed standard configuration.
CIAC's 2023 report says sales of three systems to the Colombian aerospace force were secured. It also describes flight testing of the COELUM VTOL prototype. A system can contain several aircraft and supporting equipment, so a system order is not an aircraft count. The available procurement evidence supports an order and production record, while the exact acceptance state of every delivered system remains to be verified. Colombian design claims are attributed to CIAC rather than converted into an independently audited percentage of domestic components.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing standard version; VTOL derivative separately under development | Published baseline for this model; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Hand launch for standard version | Published baseline for this model; 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 | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Endurance | More than 60 minutes | Published baseline for this model; 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 | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Sensors | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
Publication history
- — Published reference update.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Current COELUM product (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- CIAC 2022 management report (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- CIAC 2023 management report (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme