TL;DRERC System unveiled its Victor cargo eVTOL at ILA Berlin 2026, targeting 250kg payload, 300km range, and 2028 deliveries for defence and logistics.
Munich-area startup ERC System has unveiled Victor, an uncrewed hybrid-electric cargo eVTOL designed for defence, logistics, and disaster response, at ILA Berlin 2026. The company says the aircraft can carry a 250kg payload over a range of 300km at a cruise speed of 250km/h. ERC System is targeting first deliveries in 2028.
Victor uses a lift-and-cruise architecture with eight lifting propellers for vertical takeoff and a pusher propeller for forward flight. A piston engine serves as a range extender on top of the electric powertrain, a design choice that ERC’s chief commercial officer Maximilian Oligschläger has said reflects the company’s reluctance to “bet on future technologies.” The hybrid approach trades the simplicity of a fully electric system for the range that battery technology alone cannot yet deliver.
The aircraft builds on flight testing of ERC’s Romeo prototype, a 2.7-tonne, 16-metre-wingspan demonstrator that the company says is the heaviest fully electric aircraft of its type to have flown in Europe. Romeo began hover testing near Munich in November 2025, completing roughly ten flights. ERC says the tests validated its flight-control system and lift-and-cruise configuration.
