UMS Skeldar AG is an aircraft manufacturer based in Sweden, with both headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Linköping. It was formed in 2018 as a joint venture between majority shareholder UMS Aero Group and

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. Its principle product is the Skeldar range of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) rotorcraft. The company also owns the

Hirth Hirth Engines GmbH is an engine manufacturer based in Benningen, Germany. It is currently a part of the UMS Aero Group. Hirth began manufacturing aero engines in the 1920s, was taken over by Heinkel in WWII to develop the Heinkel-Hirth jet en ...

company, whose range of light two-stroke engines provide the power units for the rotorcraft.

Formation

Swiss UAV AG was a privately owned company based in

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that designed and manufactured

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(drones). It entered a partnership with

, in May 2009. In 2013, Swiss UAV was acquired by Unmanned Systems AG and the following year merged into

UMS Aero Group UMS Skeldar AG is an aircraft manufacturer based in Sweden, with both headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Linköping. It was formed in 2018 as a joint venture between majority shareholder UMS Aero Group and Saab AB, Saab. Its principle p ...

alongside Swedish company Unmanned Systems AB. At the end of 2015 UMS Aero Group and Saab, manufacturers of the Skeldar unmanned vehicle, formed UMS Skeldar, a joint venture in which UMS Aero Group is the majority partner. Besides its Swiss headquarters and manufacturing, it maintains a manufacturing facility in Sweden, as UMS Skeldar Sweden AB.

Aircraft

Earlier types have included: * F-330 Fixed-wing UAS. * F-720 Fixed-wing UAS. * R-350 Rotary UAS. Current products include two rotorcraft drone systems: * UMS Skeldar V-200 * UMS Skeldar V-150

Subsidiary companies

UMS Skeldar acquired the long-established

German light piston engine manufacturer in 2018. Hirth provide the heavy-fuel (jet fuel) engines used in the rotorcraft.UMS SKELDAR Announces Acquisition of Global Engine Manufacturer Hirth Engines
Hirth Engines, 2018. (retrieved 23 August 2022)

References

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