Aircraft
Interest Grows in Aurora’s Optionally Piloted Centaur
The U.S. company is now promoting the aircraft in Europe for low-cost airborne sensing.
The Centaur OPV on display at the recent Farnborough Airshow. It carriers the logo of DO Systems, the British distributor for Diamond Aircraft, which has provided DA42 MPPs for surveillance and aerial survey under contract. (Photo: Chris Pocock)
The Centaur OPV on display at the recent Farnborough Airshow. It carriers the logo of DO Systems, the British distributor for Diamond Aircraft, which has provided DA42 MPPs for surveillance and aerial survey under contract. (Photo: Chris Pocock)

Aurora Flight Sciences is close to securing up to three customers in Europe, plus one in the U.S., for its Centaur optionally piloted aircraft (OPA), which is based on the Diamond DA42 twin-engine tourer, the company told AIN. The American company has been marketing the Centaur in the U.S. as a versatile, low-cost airborne sensing platform for two years but only recently expanded the effort to Europe.

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