Civil UAV Design & Assembly · Los Angeles
Aircraft built around the job, not the catalogue
ForgeGravity Aero designs and assembles unmanned aircraft for agriculture, inspection, survey and monitoring. We start from the task you need flown and work backwards to the airframe.
ClassCivil only
BuildMade to task
SupportParts & service
What we make
Four families, one engineering approach
Every platform starts from a payload and a flight profile. The airframe follows from that, never the other way round.
Spray Multirotor
Heavy-lift rotorcraft carrying a tank and boom, tuned for low, slow, repeatable passes over a field.
VTOL Survey Wing
Vertical take-off with a fixed wing for cruise — long transects without needing a runway.
Inspection Compact
Small, manoeuvrable, built to hold position close to a structure in awkward air.
Tethered Observer
Ground-powered station keeping for events, incidents and perimeter work over long periods.
How a build runs
From task to first flight
Five waypoints. Each one closes before the next opens, so nothing is discovered late.
Mission
What has to be flown, where, how often, and what the aircraft has to carry to do it.
Layout
Airframe geometry, propulsion and payload mounting drawn and reviewed before anything is cut.
Build
Assembly in our own shop, with every component and revision recorded against the airframe.
Test
Bench checks, tethered runs, then progressive flight testing against the mission profile.
Handover
Operator training, spares, documentation and a service route that stays open afterwards.
Sensing
The payload decides the aircraft
A multispectral camera, a spray boom and a thermal head want three different airframes. We pick propulsion, endurance and stability around what has to be carried, then keep the mount open so the payload can change later.
- Optical, thermal and multispectral heads
- Spray tanks, booms and spreaders
- Mapping sensors and positioning gear
- Open mounting so payloads can be swapped
Who flies them
Operators, not hobbyists
Aircraft that go out in working conditions and come back needing parts, not sympathy.
Farms & Agronomy
Spraying, spreading and crop scouting across acreage where a ground rig cannot go or should not.
Utilities & Energy
Line, tower, turbine and solar-array inspection without putting a person on the structure.
Survey & Construction
Site mapping, volume tracking and progress capture on a repeatable schedule.
Public Safety
Search support, incident overwatch and situational picture for responders on the ground.
Forestry & Environment
Canopy health, watercourse survey, wildlife counts and early fire spotting over rough country.
Industrial Sites
Perimeter watch, stockpile measurement and indoor inventory flights inside large facilities.
Why us
What changes when the builder stays reachable
Built to the task
We do not sell a standard airframe and hope it fits. The mission profile sets the design, and we say so when an off-the-shelf machine would serve you better.
Serviceable by design
Standard fasteners, accessible bays and documented wiring. A field repair should not require sending the aircraft back to us.
Records that follow the airframe
Every component, revision and test result is logged against the serial, so a fault two seasons later has a history to read.
Civil work only
We build for agriculture, inspection, survey, environment and public safety. We do not take defence or weapons work, and that is not negotiable.
Next step
Describe the flight, not the drone
Tell us what has to be covered, how often, and what it has to carry. We will come back with a platform direction and an honest read on whether we are the right shop.