Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Corporación de la Industria Aeronáutica Colombiana (CIAC)
- Origin / production countries
- Colombia
- Other names
- Quimbaya
- Variants / configurations
- See the named configuration and evidence notes
- Operators / programme customers
- Not confirmed in the reviewed public sources
Evidence & current status
CIAC documents a marketed system and industrialisation programme. Specific military acceptance, current fleet size and full design lineage were not established.
ART Quimbaya is a Colombian surveillance aircraft programme marketed by CIAC. The manufacturer describes it as a platform for reconnaissance, critical-infrastructure observation and other government missions. Its system combines an aircraft, imaging equipment, ground control and a communications link. The public description offers manual, semi-automatic and autonomous flight modes, including automatic take-off and landing.
CIAC’s technical page lists eight hours of flight duration and one hundred kilometres of operating range. It also separates the seven-kilogram payload allowance into camera and electronics portions. That detail matters: the full stated amount should not be treated as unallocated capacity available for an additional sensor. The page gives a cruise speed and an operating ceiling, but a complete dimensional and mass baseline was not established in the reviewed text.
The current product listing confirms a marketed programme, while CIAC’s corporate reporting describes industrialisation work. Neither alone supplies a full military delivery or acceptance inventory. This entry therefore uses a supplier-reported status. It also avoids treating statements about national content as a verified audit of every subsystem or the aircraft’s complete design lineage.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Automatic take-off and landing | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | 8 hours | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Range | 100 km operating range | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Speed | 100 km/h cruise | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Operating ceiling up to 12,000 ft | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Payload | 7 kg total: 4 kg camera and 3 kg electronics | Manufacturer allocation; not seven kilograms of additional spare payload capacity. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Electro-optical / infrared imaging | Manufacturer-described system. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Encrypted datalink and autopilot | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source ↗ |
Publication history
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