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Aery Launches Special-mission GIV-SP Jet as a Service

Multi-mission aircraft is available for civil and defense clients on a per-flight-hour cost basis

Aery’s Raven special mission GIV-SP — Aery Aviation’s Raven special-mission Gulfstream IV-SP has 16 hardpoints that can be fitted with swappable pods based on the mission for civilian or defense clients. The aircraft is availabe on a per-flight-hour cost basis—akin to air charter services.

By Chad Trautvetter • Online Editor

February 18, 2026

Aery Aviation, a Newport News-based Part 135 air charter operator and Part 145 maintenance provider, has launched a special-mission "aircraft as a service" product using highly modified, low-time preowned Gulfstream IV-SPs. Dubbed Raven, the multi-mission platform can be used for a variety of civil and defense missions, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; maritime patrol; electronic warfare; airborne testbed; UAV tracking and jamming; lidar mapping; rocket launch monitoring; and sea search radar.

The company has already modified one GIV-SP with 16 hardpoints—each having milspec connections and additional RF and fiber-optic attachments for future growth—that can accommodate some 40 swappable sensor pods, with configurations based on the mission. In addition, the aircraft has a mechanically-steerable array, positioned just below the nose, capable of scanning the 3 MHz to 18 GHz spectrum. Aery is modifying two other GIV-SPs into Raven platforms.

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