ALTIS AEROSPACE designs, builds, certifies, and sustains next-generation aircraft and aerospace systems — from regional airliners to electric urban aircraft, autonomous logistics platforms, and defence platforms. One OEM. Four platforms. A full spectrum of flight.
ALTIS IRJ — engineered for altitude, distance, and the terrain it was built for.
“The sky belongs to everyone.” — we build the aircraft that make it true.
ALTIS AEROSPACE
Who We Are
An OEM built across the full spectrum of flight.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is a globally integrated aerospace OEM that designs, develops, manufactures, certifies, and sustains next-generation aircraft and aerospace systems — across commercial aviation, regional air transport, advanced air mobility, autonomous logistics, and defence platforms.
Commercial Aviation 01
Regional Air Transport 02
Advanced Air Mobility 03
Autonomous Logistics 04
Defence Platforms 05
Products
Four platforms. One design and certification spine.
Every ALTIS platform is designed, owned, and built in-house — from clean-sheet architecture through type certification, production, and aftermarket support.
Regional Air Transport
ALTIS IRJ 🇮🇳
An 80–90 seat regional turboprop family — IRJ-80, IRJ-90 and IRJ-M — engineered for short runways, hot-and-high airfields, and the thin routes India's underserved regions depend on. Built to connect the world's underserved regions.
A four-rotor urban eVTOL seating four passengers and one pilot. Designed for dense, congested cities — quiet, electric, point-to-point mobility above the traffic below.
A multirole military transport variant of the IRJ family — troop, cargo, and special-mission configurations built for sovereign air forces and strategic autonomy.
Deep, in-house structural, systems, and certification engineering across every platform — the same discipline mature OEMs are built on.
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Manufacturing Technology & Infrastructure
Precision machining, digital-twin-verified production, and Industry 5.0 manufacturing systems — built for certified aircraft at rate.
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Advanced AI led Product Development
AI-assisted design, simulation, and generative engineering embedded across the development lifecycle — accelerating iteration without compromising rigour.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is India's first private-sector aircraft OEM — designing, owning, and building its own aircraft, from clean-sheet architecture to type certification.
"We are building an enduring aerospace institution — one that designs, owns, and stands behind everything it builds, creates Indian intellectual property, and serves markets across the world."
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Dataram Mishra
Chairman & CEO
What We Stand For
Four convictions that shape every programme.
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A first, by right
India's first private-sector aircraft OEM — earned through engineering discipline and sustained execution.
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The full spectrum
Regional aircraft, urban air mobility, autonomous logistics, and defence platforms — one design and certification spine.
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Built for the world
Engineered for the routes, runways, and conditions that matter most to underserved regions — and built to serve every market.
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Sovereign and unstrung
Designed, owned, and manufactured in India — with the independence to serve any customer, anywhere.
A 400-acre home for four platforms and one ambition.
The vision, the institution, and the people building it.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is more than four aircraft platforms — it is a long-term institution, a national mission, and the people leading it, from the ground up.
Vision 2047
The Opportunity
Building the industrial foundation for India's 2047 aerospace vision.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is building the industrial foundation for India's 2047 aerospace vision. We are creating a globally integrated aircraft ecosystem spanning four platform domains, unified by a common engineering, certification, manufacturing, and lifecycle support architecture. Every programme contributes to a shared foundation designed to scale across multiple aircraft families, technologies, and generations.
This is the ground floor of a long-term aerospace enterprise — one designed to develop, certify, manufacture, and sustain world-class aircraft for decades to come. As our platforms enter service and our global fleet grows, the ecosystem we are building today is intended to remain relevant, resilient, and continuously evolving well beyond 2047.
Chairman's Vision Statement
Dataram Mishra
Chairman and CEO
Building an Enduring Aerospace Institution
Aviation has always meant more than transportation.
Aviation has always meant more than transportation. It represents human ambition, technological achievement, economic progress, and national capability. Every nation that has invested seriously in aerospace has accelerated its innovation, deepened its industrial base, advanced its technology, and expanded its influence in the global economy.
India possesses the engineering talent, the entrepreneurial capability, and the technological depth to be one of those nations. What India needs is an institution built to carry that ability the full distance, from clean-sheet design through to a certified aircraft in service. ALTIS AEROSPACE has been established to be that institution.
A National Moment, and a Global Ambition
We are building ALTIS AEROSPACE at a moment when India has set itself two clear national missions: Atmanirbhar Bharat, self-reliance across the industries that matter most to the country's strategic future, and Viksit Bharat 2047, the ambition to become a fully developed nation by the hundredth year of independence. Aerospace sits at the centre of both. It is one of the few industries that combines advanced manufacturing, deep-technology engineering, and strategic autonomy in a single sector — and one of the few where India has genuine capability, and is now building the capacity to match it.
Self-reliance, properly understood, is built through open partnership. Every enduring aerospace industry has been built in partnership, and India is following that same proven path. We intend to build ALTIS in partnership with the world's leading aerospace, defence, and technology organisations — sourcing the best systems, co-developing the hardest technologies, and holding ourselves to the same certification standards the rest of the world holds its OEMs to. Global partnership is how self-reliance is actually built.
Our Vision
Our vision reaches beyond developing aircraft alone. Our vision is to build an enduring aerospace institution that designs, engineers, manufactures, supports, and continuously advances world-class aerospace products and technologies — one that is still doing this work, and doing it well, fifty years from now.
We see ALTIS AEROSPACE becoming a globally respected aerospace OEM, serving commercial aviation, regional air transport, advanced air mobility, autonomous systems, and defence platforms — an OEM that is unmistakably Indian in its origin, and unmistakably global in its standards and its reach.
Our strategy combines innovation with discipline, ambition with execution, and technology with long-term value creation. None of these on their own is sufficient. Together, they are how institutions are actually built.
The Decade Ahead
The next ten years will be defined by transformation, and we intend for ALTIS to be an active participant in shaping it:
Regional connectivity will expand, reaching routes and communities that are ready and waiting for it.
Advanced air mobility will emerge as a genuine, everyday mode of transport.
Autonomous systems will reshape logistics and operations across civil and defence applications alike.
Artificial intelligence will redefine how aerospace is engineered, certified, and sustained.
New industrial ecosystems will be created — and India's aerospace supply chain, anchored by the Atmanirbhar Bharat mission, will be one of them.
Our Standing Commitments
We will pursue excellence in engineering, integrity in governance, innovation in technology, and an uncompromising commitment to our customers, our employees, our investors, our partners, the nation, and the society we serve.
We recognise that building an aerospace OEM is a generational endeavour — one that requires patience, resilience, strategic partnership, and disciplined execution in equal measure. This is an industry built on patience and discipline, and that is exactly the path we have chosen.
Beyond Products. An Institution.
The objective is to build an institution that endures — one that others can rely on for the full decades-long duration an aircraft programme actually requires.
An institution that contributes meaningfully to India's industrial development.
An institution that stands as a genuine pillar of the Viksit Bharat 2047 mission.
An institution that creates opportunity for the next generations of Indian engineers.
An institution that advances aviation and aerospace innovation in its own right.
An institution that earns global respect the only way it can be earned — through performance, quality, and trust, sustained over time.
Looking Toward 2047
As we look toward 2047 — the hundredth year of India's independence, and the horizon of Viksit Bharat — our commitment is clear, and it holds steady through every calendar and every cycle.
“To build ALTIS AEROSPACE into one of the most respected aerospace enterprises to emerge from India, a genuine contributor to Atmanirbhar Bharat and Viksit Bharat 2047, and a trusted partner to the global aerospace industry — creating lasting value for every stakeholder, while helping shape the future of flight.”
Dataram Mishra Chairman and CEO ALTIS AEROSPACE
Profile
The Person Behind the Vision
Nearly three decades in aerospace engineering, technology, and product development.
Dataram Mishra has spent nearly three decades in aerospace engineering, technology, and product development — beginning in defence research and helicopter development, building two engineering / technology services and one engineering product development company from the ground up, and now leading ALTIS AEROSPACE as Chairman and CEO. His work has consistently centred on one idea: that Indian engineering talent, given the right technologies and the right ecosystem, can compete at the highest level of global aerospace.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Aeronautical Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Career History
Initial Kick Off
Mr. Mishra began his career at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as a scientist on India's unmanned aircraft programme, before moving to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Over more than nine years at HAL, he worked as an engineering manager with the team that designed and developed the Advanced Light Helicopter (Dhruv), contributing across design, analysis, simulation, testing, and development, working closely with technical counterparts from MBB, Germany — now Airbus Helicopters.
The Turning Point
Convinced that access to advanced engineering software tools and technologies could make Indian industry globally competitive, Mr. Mishra moved into technology company as Director-Operations and a member of the Executive Board at CSM Software, a leading CAD/CAM/CAE/CFD/PLM engineering software and services company. During this period, he introduced advanced CAE, CFD, and other globally validated commercial engineering tools and technologies to Indian industry — moving the market from in-house code to industry-standard software — and built a team of more than 100 engineers and specialists, serving customers including HAL, DRDO, ISRO, NAL, GE, and many reputed manufacturers in India.
The Renaissance
Mr. Mishra then partnered with a private equity investor and founded and took over as Managing Director and CEO, an engineering-services venture CADES (now Axiscades) built on the then-emerging "design anywhere, build anywhere" model. CADES positioned Indian engineering as a high-technology, high-value capability on the global stage, growing to more than 500 engineers and technology specialists within five years, with cumulative delivery experience exceeding 3,000 engineer-years. Under his leadership the company grew revenue at roughly 70–75% year on year, with clients including Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Eurocopter, DRDO, ISRO, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Nissan etc.
Product Foundation Trends
To move from engineering services to engineering product development, Mr. Mishra founded and led a broader engineering products and technology group, CHIVARO, spanning technology development, aerospace and defence product development, along with advanced skills and competency development — extending his work from engineering services into ground-up product development and building organisational capability to design, deliver, and validate through physical testing and manufacturing. He implemented the concept of Design to Build and built expertise from ER&D to product testing and manufacturing.
Current Trends · 2025 Onwards
In 2025, Mr. Mishra founded ALTIS AEROSPACE, a private-sector aerospace OEM based in India, designing and building aircraft across regional air transport, urban air mobility, and autonomous cargo logistics, alongside a defence transport platform for military mobility. He serves as Chairman and CEO. This organisation, with strong global strategic partnerships, is in the process of developing aviation-based mobility products which will revolutionise the industry, and has set a clear vision for the next 20 years.
Entrepreneurship & International Experience
Mr. Mishra has travelled to close to 30 countries over his career, establishing business operations and customer relationships across aerospace, defence, automotive, transportation, and manufacturing industry segments. He brings strategic and operational leadership experience spanning technology, business development, finance, and human resources across global organisations — and has built multiple companies from an early stage through to international scale, delivering successful outcomes for shareholders and partners along the way. In summary, he is a visionary techno-entrepreneur, always looking for futuristic advanced technology and products to lead and manage, and to make a difference to the overall industry segment.
Awards & Recognition
Mr. Mishra has received several awards and honours over his career recognising his contributions to technology and business leadership in Indian and global industry, including:
Udyog Ratan Award
Rashtriya Nirman Gold Award
Vikas Ratan Award & Gold Medal
Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani Award
National Status Award for Intellectual Development — Indian Organisation for Commerce & Industry
Indira Gandhi Sadbhavna Award
Arch of Excellence (Business Award)
Rashtriya Shiromani Award
Rashtriya Samman Puraskar
Indira Gandhi Memorial Achievement Award
Gold Medal — India International Council for Industries and Trade
International Achiever's Award for Corporate Leadership
National Business Leadership Award — Indian Society for Industry & Intellectual Development
Rashtriya Gaurav Ratan Award
Kohinoor of India Award
Personal
Known to colleagues as Dataram, Mr. Mishra is a family man with an interest in Indian Vedic philosophy, an enthusiasm for sport, and a lifelong appreciation for Indian music. He lives in Bengaluru with his family, and spends his leisure time travelling to natural landscapes across India and overseas.
Leadership Team
The Team Behind ALTIS
Decades of aerospace engineering, commercial, and financial leadership.
SK Bhagwat
Chief Engineering Officer
M.Eng Mechanical Engineering · IISc Bengaluru · 30+ Years
Leads engineering across the ALTIS platform portfolio. His career spans thirty years across HAL's Helicopter Design Bureau (Advanced Light Helicopter), OEM programmes at Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Leonardo, and KAI, defence and space programmes at DRDO and ISRO, and mobility engineering at Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Volvo, and Tata Motors.
R. Narayanan
Chief Commercial Officer
M.S (Engg) · IIT Madras · 30+ Years
Leads commercial strategy, customer development, and business development across the civil and defence portfolio. His career spans Pertech Computers, Wipro Infotech, MSC Software, and CSM Software, and includes Founder and CEO of Cax Software — a specialist engineering software company covering MBD, acoustics, NVH, durability, safety, and tyre analysis.
Shyam Vishnubhotla
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
IISc Aerospace Engineering · 25+ Years
Leads marketing and strategy across the ALTIS civil and defence portfolio. At Honeywell Aerospace he scaled a team from 24 to over 700 and closed contracts exceeding $185 million, with over $80 million in P&L responsibility and supply chain experience spanning the US, Canada, South America, India, and Europe.
A. Srinivas
Chief Financial Officer
B.Tech, MBA (Finance) & CFA · 25+ Years
Leads financial strategy, investor relations, and capital management. He brings over eight years as a Group CFO and more than ten years in senior leadership at a listed technology company, with a track record spanning four completed and financed acquisitions, USD 270 million in investments led, and USD 200 million or more raised from global investors.
Contact Us
Get in Touch
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Location
Where We're Based
Headquartered in Bengaluru.
Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru
Karnataka, India
An enduring institution starts with a clear vision. This is ours.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is building the aircraft that will carry the next fifty years of flight — across regional air transport, advanced air mobility, autonomous logistics, and defence platforms. They are four expressions of a single aerospace company: the same engineering discipline, the same certification rigor, the same production system, applied wherever the world needs a new aircraft. Every platform we build is designed, certified, industrialized, produced, and sustained end to end, by ALTIS AEROSPACE — because ownership of the full lifecycle is the only way an OEM earns the right to call itself one.
This architecture is built to adapt to the multi-role demands of airlines, logistics operators, and militaries across the world — on a common engineering backbone, a common certification framework, and a common production system, so every new ALTIS AEROSPACE platform inherits proven capability. It is how a company with four platforms in development today builds its long-term vision on the same foundation — the same compounding advantage that has carried every enduring OEM in the world, from Toulouse to Seattle, and now, to Bangalore.
A modern 80–90 seat turboprop, built to put regional aviation back on the map.
ALTIS IRJ-80 — cruising above the terrain it was built for: altitude, distance, and thin air.
The ALTIS IRJ is the flagship of the ALTIS portfolio — a clean-sheet, 80–90 seat passenger turboprop built to bring efficient, sustainable air travel to regional routes that have high growth potential. We designed it for the hardest conditions — heat, altitude, and short runways — and built an aircraft that is every bit as competitive across the established networks of the developed world. An aircraft engineered for the extremes has room to spare everywhere else.
Why the ALTIS IRJ
Regional aviation is one of the great unsolved problems in commercial aerospace. Across entire continents, thousands of routes are flown by aircraft designed a generation ago, or wait for the right aircraft to unlock them — proof that the demand is real, and the economics and conditions of those routes are simply waiting for the right aircraft. The ALTIS IRJ exists to close that gap: to make regional flying viable, comfortable, and clean, on the routes and in the places that need it most.
Efficiency — On short-range routes, turboprop efficiency is the decisive advantage. The ALTIS IRJ targets a 15–18% reduction in fuel burn per seat against comparable aircraft — lower operating costs for airlines, and viable service on routes that would otherwise go dark.
Capability — Full-payload performance in the conditions that ground other aircraft: 45°C heat, elevations up to 2,500 m, and runways as short as 1,200 m.
Sustainability — 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel compatibility from entry into service, with a propulsion architecture built to carry hybrid-electric technology as it matures — an aircraft designed with where fuel is headed in mind.
Front elevation, engineering referenceShort-field capability, unprepared stripTurnaround-ready, operator livery
Key Specifications
Configuration80–90 seat passenger
PropulsionTwin turboprop
Cruise Speed~550 km/h
Range1,200–1,500 nm
Service CeilingFL250
Minimum Runway1,200 m
Hot & High45°C / 2,500 m at full payload
Sustainable Fuel100% SAF compatible from EIS
Cabin2+2, stand-up headroom
CertificationDGCA primary + EASA validation
Entry Into Service2032
The ALTIS IRJ Family — one airframe, multiple operator liveries, sharing type certification.
The ALTIS IRJ Family
ALTIS IRJ-80 — The base configuration and the workhorse of the family: 80 seats, tuned for the shortest, highest-frequency regional routes where turboprop economics win outright.
ALTIS IRJ-90 — A higher-density, extended-range sibling built for regional trunk routes and higher-demand city pairs — sharing its airframe, systems, and type certification with the IRJ-80, so operators gain a second aircraft without a second learning curve.
Cabin & Operator Experience
The ALTIS IRJ cabin is built around a 2+2 configuration. For passengers — full stand-up headroom, generous windows, and a cabin quiet enough to feel effortless, every time. For operators — a single type rating, spares pool, and one maintenance programme across the entire family, because commonality is where regional economics are actually won or lost.
Every ALTIS IRJ begins as a fully digital aircraft — modelled, stressed, and correlated long before a rivet is set — carrying its digital twin from design review through to the aircraft on the ramp.
Digital twin — full-airframe modelFront elevation — aerodynamic study
Project IRJ — structural CAD geometry and wing-root FE mesh & load analysis, direct from the engineering programme.
IRJ Maintenance — line and heavy maintenance, supported close to where operators fly.
Built for a Lifetime of Service
Every ALTIS IRJ leaves the factory with a promise attached: lifelong support — airworthiness management, spares, upgrades, and technical services — delivered through a network built close to where our operators fly, on every continent we serve.
02 · Advanced Air Mobility
Products · Advanced Air Mobility
ALTIS Q1 🇮🇳
A five-seat electric VTOL, built for urban environments.
ALTIS Q1 — distributed electric propulsion, built for the vertiport.
ALTIS Q1 is a five-seat electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft — four passengers and one pilot — designed to do for urban mobility what the jet engine once did for intercontinental travel: collapse distance. It moves people above the gridlock at a fraction of a helicopter's noise and cost, with zero direct emissions — a serious answer to a problem every fast-growing city on Earth now shares.
Advanced air mobility only becomes real when an aircraft is safe, quiet, affordable to operate, and genuinely built for the real environment it flies in, validated well beyond a certification test in a temperate climate. ALTIS Q1 is built against all four requirements simultaneously, from a blank sheet, because meeting all four specifications is how AAM programmes succeed.
Design Highlights
Distributed electric propulsion — Multiple independent electric rotors deliver redundancy, low noise, and zero direct emissions, with no single point of failure anywhere in the propulsion system — the same logic that makes modern jets safe, reapplied to vertical flight.
Fly-by-wire simplicity — Advanced flight controls make an inherently complex aircraft stable and intuitive to fly, lowering pilot workload today and clearing the path to supervised autonomy tomorrow.
Built for real climates — Battery and thermal systems engineered for genuinely high ambient temperatures, going well beyond the mild test-bench conditions most eVTOL programmes are designed around — because the cities that need this aircraft most are rarely temperate.
Key Specifications
Configuration4 Passengers + 1 Pilot
PropulsionFull electric, distributed
Cruise Speed220 km/h
Maximum Speed240 km/h
RangeUp to 180 km
Endurance90 minutes
Take-off / LandingVertical (VTOL)
TurnaroundUnder 10 minutes
Rapid Charge~30 minutes
NoiseUnder 65 dB at 100 m
CertificationDGCA / EASA SC-VTOL
Entry Into Service2030
Cabin — four passenger seats and one pilot seat, finished for a premium urban air-taxi experience.
A Cabin Built for the Commute
Five seats, wraparound glazing, and a cabin designed to make a short urban hop feel like the calmest part of the day, built in from the very first line of the airframe.
Safety Architecture
Safety in ALTIS Q1 is engineered into the design from the very first line — it is the design. From independent propulsion and power, through redundant flight computers, to whole-aircraft recovery, every layer assumes something will eventually fail, and ensures the aircraft continues flying safely on the remaining systems.
Triple-redundant flight computers — no single point of failure
Independent electric propulsion — continued safe flight after a motor failure
Advanced battery management — engineered for high-temperature operation
Autonomous emergency landing — with whole-aircraft ballistic recovery parachute
Engineered Digitally, Down to the Rotor Pylon
Every ALTIS Q1 structure — wing root, rotor pylon, landing gear — is validated in simulation against real load cases before it is ever built, carrying a physics-enabled digital twin from design review through flight test.
ALTIS Q1 is built to slot into compact vertiport networks that ask for almost nothing — a landing pad, high-speed charging, and passenger facilities. Fast turnaround, rapid charging, and battery-swap capability keep the aircraft earning across a full operating day, because solving the real mobility problem starts with an aircraft that spends its day flying, not charging.
Applications
Urban air mobility — Airport shuttles, business-district connections, and cross-city travel that bypasses ground congestion entirely.
Regional connections — Fast links between neighbouring cities and communities.
Emergency & public service — Medical transport, disaster response, and public-safety missions.
ALTIS Q1 is designed with a clear, deliberate path from piloted operation toward supervised autonomy — a genuine engineering roadmap, timed to when regulation and technology are genuinely ready to meet it.
03 · Autonomous Logistics
Products · Autonomous Logistics
ALTIS C1 🇮🇳
Autonomous air logistics — reaching places roads, rail, and runways have yet to serve.
ALTIS C1 — heavy-lift configuration, cargo container secured, ready for release at a forward delivery zone.
Across most of the world, entire communities and industries operate beyond the reach of reliable road and rail — in mountains, on islands, and across remote interiors, reaching ahead of where road and rail infrastructure currently extends. ALTIS builds a family of autonomous cargo aircraft engineered to solve exactly that problem: carrying goods to places surface transport has yet to reach, on a common autonomy system, ground-control architecture, and sensor suite shared across every platform — because building one excellent autonomy stack and applying it everywhere beats building five mediocre ones.
ALTIS C1 Digital Twin — AI-assisted design diagnostics and simulation parameters, modelled before the airframe is built.
Engineered Digitally, Flown Autonomously
Every ALTIS C1 variant is validated in simulation first — generative design exploration, load-case diagnostics, and mission parameters modelled against the physics before a single airframe is built.
Built for Commercial Logistics at Scale
The same heavy-lift platform that reaches a forward delivery zone in difficult terrain is equally at home moving freight through a working port — one autonomy stack, one aircraft, every mission along the supply chain.
Commercial Logistics — ALTIS C1 moving freight through a working port, middle-mile logistics at scale.
ALTIS C1 — Multirotor Cargo Drones
The ALTIS C1 family spans three payload classes — from urban last-mile delivery to heavy-lift logistics — every one of them sharing the same autonomy and ground-control architecture, so scaling the fleet always means building on the same proven aircraft.
ClassPayloadRangePrimary Role
C1 Light25–50 kg · 80 km
RoleLast-mile & medical delivery
C1 Standard150–250 kg · 250 km
RoleRegional lift-and-cruise logistics
C1 HeavyUp to 1,000 kg · 350 km
RoleDefence & disaster-response heavy lift
IRCD-500 — Autonomous Cargo Aircraft
The IRCD-500 is a clean-sheet, fixed-wing autonomous cargo aircraft built for regional freight into the locations conventional aviation has given up on. Its rugged short take-off and landing capability lets it operate from semi-prepared strips as short as 180 m — dirt, gravel, or asphalt — putting cargo down in places built for exactly this aircraft to reach.
Payload500 kg
Cargo VolumeUp to 4 m³
Range800 km (1,500 km ferry)
Cruise Speed180 km/h
Maximum Speed250 km/h
Take-off / Landing180 m / 150 m STOL
Runway SurfaceAsphalt, gravel, dirt
Service Ceiling18,000 ft
EnduranceUp to 6 hours
ConfigurationHigh-wing, rear loading ramp
OperationFully autonomous, BVLOS
Applications
One airframe family. Four missions the world runs on:
Commercial logistics — Regional and middle-mile freight, e-commerce distribution, and express delivery networks.
Critical supply — Medical and emergency supply, vaccine and blood-product delivery, and disaster response.
Remote operations — Offshore and island connectivity, mining and energy logistics.
Defence — Forward resupply and logistics into contested or inaccessible terrain.
Every ALTIS cargo platform ships as a complete, supported product — aircraft, autonomy, ground control, and lifecycle support together — to civil and defence customers alike. We deliver hardware, support, and lifecycle service together — we deliver a capability, and we stand behind it.
04 · Defence Platforms
Products · Defence Platforms
ALTIS IRJ-M 🇮🇳
Military transport and multi-role — built on the certified backbone of the civil ALTIS IRJ.
ALTIS IRJ-M — sovereign capability, built on a fleet already flying.
The ALTIS IRJ-M is a military transport and multi-role aircraft built on the proven foundation of the civil ALTIS IRJ. Sharing its airframe, propulsion, and systems means armed forces gain a dependable, sovereign capability at lower cost and on a faster timeline than a clean-sheet military programme could ever deliver — supported, from day one, by the infrastructure of an already-operational civil fleet.
The Shared-Airframe Advantage
Building a military transport from a certified civil aircraft is one of the most proven routes to capability in the entire industry. The civil ALTIS IRJ absorbs the cost and time of core airframe and systems development; the IRJ-M adds mission equipment, role fit, and qualification on top of a foundation that is already flying — arriving at a mature platform sooner, and one that is dramatically easier to sustain for the decades a defence fleet demands.
Mission Roles
One airframe. Five missions a modern defence force actually needs:
Tactical transport — troop and equipment movement for forward-deployed forces
Medical evacuation — rapid conversion for casualty transport
VIP and staff transport — for defence and government customers
Maritime patrol — surveillance variant with underwing sensor pods
Multi-role utility — for allied-nation defence cooperation programmes
Qualification & Sustainment
Qualification — Developed against CEMILAC and DGAQA standards, drawing directly on the civil type certification evidence base — qualification built on an already-proven foundation.
Sustainment — Inherits the spares ecosystem and MRO network of the civil ALTIS IRJ fleet — sovereign capability that is genuinely sustainable across decades of service.
Export — Export configurations designed in parallel for partner-nation defence cooperation, consistent with Indian export policy — built for allies around the world, as much as for home.
Four platforms. One design and certification spine. Built to fly, everywhere it's needed.
Deep technology sits at the centre of how ALTIS works — the operating system of the company. A modern engineering and manufacturing environment connects every discipline — research, design, analysis, manufacturing, assembly, and certification — on a single digital thread. It is how a company designs faster, industrializes with confidence, and builds with precision, at a pace that would otherwise take a legacy OEM decades to reach.
The Integrated Ecosystem — Digital Engineering, AI & Advanced Manufacturing
Three Pillars, One Thread
A unified strategy connects all three into one thread.
Our technology strategy rests on three pillars, unified by one continuous flow of data across the entire product lifecycle.
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Digital Engineering
A model-based, digitally connected engineering environment — from requirements to a living digital twin.
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Artificial Intelligence
AI applied across design, analysis, certification, and operations — accelerating the work and improving the outcome.
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Advanced Manufacturing
An Industry 5.0 production environment where automation and human expertise build aircraft to precision.
Technology · Digital Engineering
A model-based, digitally connected engineering environment
ALTIS AEROSPACE engineers every aircraft in a fully digital environment, long before a single part is cut. Requirements, design, analysis, and manufacturing data live on one connected backbone, so every discipline works from a single source of truth — catching issues while they are still cheap to fix, and continuously building the evidence base that certification will eventually demand.
Model-Based Systems Engineering
Requirements, system architecture, and interface control are managed in one unified MBSE environment, shared across every product line and both civil and defence certification tracks. System behaviour is modelled and verified digitally long before hardware exists — the difference between discovering a problem in a simulation and discovering it on a test bench.
Digital Twin
Every platform carries a physics-enabled digital twin — a living digital model correlated continuously against test and in-service data. It accelerates validation, generates certification evidence, and keeps adding value across the aircraft's entire operational life through predictive insight most manufacturers only gain a decade into a programme.
Model-Based Definition & PLM
One product-lifecycle-management backbone carries the configuration-controlled digital definition of every part and assembly, from engineering release through manufacturing and into service — the connective tissue that makes a digital thread more than a diagram.
The Digital Thread
Design, analysis, manufacturing, and in-service data connect end to end. A change in one domain propagates with full traceability across every other — the foundation beneath both engineering speed and certification confidence, and the reason a four-platform portfolio can move at the pace of one.
The Digital Engineering Stack — MBSE, simulation, digital twin, model-based definition, requirements traceability, and configuration management, unified in one PLM-driven environment.
ALTIS IRJ — virtual stress analysis on wing and nacelle structures, correlated directly against the physical aircraft on the production floor.ALTIS Q1 — wing-root and rotor-pylon fatigue analysis, validated through to final avionics integration and structural test readiness.
The digital twin is a living engineering asset. Every colour on the stress plot becomes a torque spec, a layup sequence, or an inspection point on the aircraft taking shape beside it — the same logic carried across every ALTIS platform, from the ALTIS IRJ to ALTIS Q1.
Technology · Artificial Intelligence
AI applied across design, certification, and operations
Artificial intelligence runs through ALTIS engineering as a working tool that makes engineers faster and their designs better. We apply AI exactly where it earns its place: exploring design space at a scale no manual process could match, accelerating analysis, and supporting the enormous evidentiary weight of certification.
AI-Led Design
Generative design — AI explores thousands of structural configurations against weight, strength, and manufacturability targets, surfacing solutions only possible at machine speed.
Physics-informed models — Machine-learning models trained on real physics accelerate structural substantiation and design iteration, compressing analysis cycles from days into minutes without compromising rigor.
AI in Analysis & Simulation
AI-based surrogate models accelerate computationally expensive simulation — aerodynamics, structures, thermal — allowing far more design variants to be explored in the same window of time, and freeing our engineers to spend their judgement where it matters most.
AI in Certification
Certification is one of the most evidence-intensive processes in industry. AI assists in compliance mapping, tracing requirements to evidence, and surfacing gaps early — helping us deliver certification submissions to DGCA, EASA, and defence authorities that are complete and right the first time.
AI in Operations
In service, AI powers predictive maintenance — reading fleet data through the digital twin to anticipate component health, maximise availability, and lower operating cost for every customer who puts an ALTIS aircraft to work.
AI & ML Across the Lifecycle — generative design, physics-informed simulation, surrogate modelling, AI-assisted compliance, and predictive maintenance, unified on the digital thread.
Technology · Advanced Manufacturing
An Industry 5.0 production environment
ALTIS AEROSPACE manufactures inside an Industry 5.0 environment — automation and robotics working alongside human expertise, connected end to end by the digital thread. The result is precision and repeatability at production rate, with full traceability from engineering release to final inspection — quality that is measured at every step.
Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Precision machining — Multi-axis CNC machining of structural components in titanium, aluminium, and high-strength steel, held to aerospace tolerances that leave no room for interpretation.
Composite manufacturing — Automated fibre placement and resin transfer moulding for primary structures, with process-controlled curing that turns quality into a repeatable, engineered outcome.
Additive manufacturing — Additive processes for tooling and selected components, cutting weight, lead time, and material waste wherever the physics allows it.
Automated Assembly
Determinant assembly tooling, augmented-reality-guided work instructions, automated drilling and riveting, and automated torque and conformity verification bring precision and repeatability to final assembly — with quality captured as data at every single step, built in from the start.
Integration & Test
Systems integration rigs, structured-light and CMM inspection, and non-destructive testing verify every aircraft against its digital definition. Every result feeds back into the digital twin, closing the loop between what we designed and what we actually built.
Smart Factory Systems
A manufacturing execution system, industrial IoT machine monitoring, and full part-level digital traceability run the production environment — giving real-time visibility of the shop floor and a complete digital record of every aircraft that leaves it.
Advanced Manufacturing, Connected — additive manufacturing, automated fibre placement, CNC machining, robotics, AR-guided assembly, NDT, industrial IoT and MES, unified through the digital thread.
The Integrated Product LifecycleDesign → Analyse → Build → Integrate — one connected data backbone, every platform.
Technology · Toolchain
An industry-leading toolchain, connected end to end
ALTIS AEROSPACE engineers and builds with an industry-leading toolchain spanning every discipline and every stage of the product lifecycle — connected on the digital thread so data moves without friction from first sketch to final assembly. This is one connected digital thread, engineered as a whole from the start — it is a single, deliberate system.
Great aircraft are always built in partnership. As a globally integrated aircraft manufacturer, ALTIS AEROSPACE works with leading companies across systems, technology, and certification — in India and around the world — to bring its platforms to market. We combine our inhouse engineering, integration, and lifecycle capability with the strength of partners who share our commitment to quality, and to the long term that aircraft programmes actually demand.
ALTIS AEROSPACE sits at the centre of every programme, holding design authority, integration responsibility, and the customer relationship. Around that core, we build partnerships across three areas — systems, technology, and certification — and we structure every one of them for the full decades-long duration an aircraft programme actually requires.
Systems Partners
The companies whose systems and structures become part of every aircraft we deliver.
Technology Partners
The companies that advance how we design, analyse, and manufacture.
Compliance & Certification Partners
The specialists who help us certify efficiently, and to the highest international standards.
Partnership Models
Supply partnerships — Long-term supply of qualified systems, components, and structures.
Risk-sharing partnerships — Co-investment in programme development in exchange for long-term supply positions — the model used across the world's major aircraft programmes.
Technology partnerships — Joint development and integration of engineering, AI, and manufacturing technologies.
01 · Systems
Partnerships · Systems
Systems Partners
Propulsion, avionics, structures and major systems.
The major systems and structures of an aircraft are developed and supplied through a network of specialist partners, integrated under ALTIS AEROSPACE design authority. We work with established suppliers who bring proven, certifiable systems to the table — and where it makes strategic sense, we structure risk-sharing partnerships that align our partners directly to the long-term success of the programme.
Propulsion
Turboprop propulsion for the ALTIS IRJ, and electric and hybrid-electric propulsion for ALTIS Q1 and the autonomous portfolio. Few decisions in an aircraft programme matter more than propulsion — which is exactly why we engage propulsion partners at the earliest possible moment in every programme.
Avionics & Systems
Flight management, avionics, flight controls, and other aircraft systems, sourced from partners with established certification pedigree and support networks that already span the globe.
Aerostructures
Composite and metallic structures, developed alongside partners across India's growing aerospace supply base and international specialists — building indigenous capability while holding the line on international quality standards at the same time.
Landing Gear & Equipment
Landing gear, actuation, and specialist equipment from qualified partners, integrated into every ALTIS platform under ALTIS AEROSPACE design authority.
02 · Technology
Partnerships · Technology
Technology Partners
Advancing how aircraft are designed and built.
ALTIS AEROSPACE partners with technology leaders who help push the boundaries of what aerospace engineering and manufacturing can do. These are the partnerships that keep our digital engineering, AI, and advanced-manufacturing capability at the very leading edge of the industry.
Digital & AI
Partners in model-based systems engineering, digital twin, PLM, and artificial intelligence — advancing the engineering backbone that connects every programme we run, and accelerating the work across all of them at once.
Advanced Manufacturing
Partners in automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, and smart-factory systems — helping build an Industry 5.0 production environment that delivers precision and quality together, at rate.
Research Collaboration
Collaboration with research institutions and technology developers on the next generation of aerospace technology — from sustainable propulsion to autonomy — keeping ALTIS AEROSPACE at the frontier of a continuously advancing industry.
03 · Compliance & Certification
Partnerships · Compliance & Certification
Compliance & Certification Partners
Certifying efficiently, to the highest international standards.
Certification sits at the centre of everything ALTIS AEROSPACE builds — the proof a modern OEM owes every regulator, operator, and passenger. We work with certification specialists and designated engineering representatives from early in every programme, so our certification bases are built efficiently and accepted by authorities around the world the first time.
Civil Certification
DGCA and EASA certification specialists and designated engineering representative networks across structures, systems, and propulsion — supporting DGCA primary certification and EASA validation for every civil platform we build.
Defence Qualification
CEMILAC and DGAQA qualification specialists for the ALTIS IRJ-M and the wider defence portfolio — building military qualification on the foundation of an evidence base that is already civil-certified.
Standards & Quality
Partners supporting AS9100 quality systems, S1000D technical publications, and the full suite of aerospace engineering and manufacturing standards — because meeting the expectations of operators and authorities everywhere is a fundamental commitment.
04 · Engage
Partnerships · Engage
Partner with ALTIS AEROSPACE
Building the next generation of aircraft, together.
ALTIS AEROSPACE is building a global and Indian partner ecosystem across systems, technology, and certification. We welcome conversations with organisations that share our standards, and our appetite for the long term.
What ALTIS AEROSPACE Looks For
The partners who belong in this ecosystem tend to share four things:
Established certification pedigree — or relevant quality approvals
A willingness — to structure long-term, milestone-aligned relationships
A multi-decade orientation — consistent with aircraft lifecycles
Technology or capability — that accelerates our platforms to market
Contact
Start the conversation.
Partnerships
partners@altisaerospace.com
Systems & Supply Chain
supplychain@altisaerospace.com
Technology Collaboration
technology@altisaerospace.com
One design authority. A growing ecosystem. Built for the next fifty years.
A 400-acre home for four platforms and one ambition.
Every ALTIS platform is designed, built, and proven on one integrated campus in Bengaluru — 400 acres spanning design and engineering, precision manufacturing, and full-aircraft testing under a single roof. One campus, one design authority, one quality standard, from first sketch to certified aircraft.
One campus. Three disciplines. Zero handoff friction.
Design and engineering, manufacturing, and testing sit together on the same 400-acre campus. An engineer can walk from a workstation to the shop floor to the test rig in minutes. That proximity is a deliberate design choice: it is how a young OEM builds aircraft to a mature OEM's standard of discipline.
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Design & Engineering
Model-based design, simulation, and rapid prototyping — where every ALTIS platform begins.
02
Manufacturing
Final assembly lines and precision machining, building airframes to certified tolerances at rate.
03
Testing
Metrology and structural verification, closing the loop between what was designed and what was built.
01 · Design & Engineering
Infrastructure · Design & Engineering
Where every ALTIS platform begins
Model-based design, virtual reality review, and rapid prototyping under one roof.
The Design Studio — collaborative workspace, VR review, and rapid prototyping, side by side.
Every ALTIS aircraft begins its life digitally, long before a part is cut. Our design and engineering studio brings model-based design, structural analysis, and physics-informed simulation into one connected environment — the same digital thread that carries a design from first concept through to a certified, in-service aircraft.
Virtual Reality Studio
Full-scale virtual reviews let engineers walk through a cabin, inspect a systems bay, or check clearances before a single physical part exists — catching interference and ergonomics issues early, while they are still a simple model change.
Prototyping Lab
Rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing turn a design iteration into a physical part within hours — validating fit, form, and function before committing to production tooling.
Collaborative Design Studio
Open studio space built for cross-discipline work — structures, systems, and industrial design reviewing the same model, at the same table, in real time.
02 · Manufacturing
Infrastructure · Manufacturing
Final assembly, built for rate
Station-based final assembly, from fuselage join to flight-deck completion.
Final Assembly Line — ALTIS IRJ turboprop: precision, integration, delivery.
The ALTIS IRJ moves down a station-based final assembly line — wing-to-fuselage join and engine integration, systems and avionics installation, and cabin and flight-deck completion — each station signed off at a quality control point before the aircraft moves to the next. It is the same station-based discipline used by mature turboprop and regional-jet programmes worldwide, built here in Bengaluru.
Station 10 — Wing-to-Fuselage Join & Engine Integration
Major structural mating and engine installation, where the airframe first takes its final shape.
Station 30 — Systems & Avionics
Flight management, avionics, and aircraft systems installed and functionally verified.
Station 50 — Cabin & Flight Deck Completion
Interior fit-out, flight-deck completion, and final testing ahead of delivery.
IRJ MRO Centre
A dedicated maintenance, repair, and overhaul hangar sits alongside the final assembly line — the same campus that builds the aircraft also stands behind it in service, on the same runway.
03 · Testing
Infrastructure · Testing
Precision machining and metrology, closing the loop
Where what was designed is verified against what was built.
Precision Machining Zone & Metrology Lab — structural components held to aerospace tolerances.
Every structural component is machined to aerospace tolerances and verified in the metrology lab before it is cleared for assembly — precision measurement equipment checking every part precisely against its digital definition. It is how ALTIS turns a certified design into a certified aircraft, part by part.
Precision Machining Zone
Multi-axis CNC machining centres producing structural components in titanium, aluminium, and high-strength steel, tool-presetting and material storage staged for continuous production.
Metrology Lab
Coordinate measuring machines and structured-light inspection verify every part against its digital model — the same data feeding back into the digital thread that connects design, manufacturing, and certification.
400 acres. One campus. Every discipline an aircraft needs.