Reliable Robotics Cessna 208 Caravan

A retrofit kit that lets an existing Cessna Caravan freighter taxi, take off, fly and land itself, including auto-landing at small airfields, while a licensed pilot in a ground control centre supervises and can take over.

Price: —not sold; retrofit system in FAA certification, planned as a service
Autonomy: SupervisedHow it runs
Driverless: TestingSince 2019-09
Fleet: —See details below
Speed: —Not published
Range: —Not published

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Why it matters

In September 2019 the company flew a Cessna 172 near San Jose with nobody on board, described as the first remote-piloted flight of a passenger airplane in the US; it then moved its system to the larger Caravan.

Real-world use

Fully remote landing of a Caravan demonstrated on the San Jose approach in June 2020; first Caravan retrofit was on an aircraft owned by FedEx (TechCrunch, 2020).

Timeline

First shown: 2019-09
Released: Not yet

Uncrewed Cessna 172 flight near San Jose, California

Maker

Reliable RoboticsCompany

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status: Driverless tests only
Where it runs: Northern California test flights
Driverless since: 2019-09
Fleet: not published

Public attention

How much public attention Reliable Robotics Cessna 208 Caravan gets, from open data.

No Wikipedia article of its own yet
No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement: Other movement
How it runs: Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.

From the maker

Reliable Robotics Cessna 208 Caravan is the only vehicle from Reliable Robotics in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price: Not publishednot sold; retrofit system in FAA certification, planned as a service
How to get one: No official buying page found

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

TechCrunch Reliable Robotics is bringing remote piloting to small cargo planes TechCrunch Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before

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