Press Releases

DARPA Awards AeroVironment Phase II Contract Extension for Nano Air Vehicle Development Program
July 01, 2009
MONROVIA, Calif., July 1, 2009 -- AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ: AVAV) was awarded a Phase II contract extension in April from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and build a flying prototype for the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program. As part of this program AV has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved: the controlled hovering flight of an air vehicle system with two flapping wings that carries its own energy source and uses only the flapping wings for propulsion and control. -> View More


AeroVironment Unveils EV Solutions at EVS-24
May 13, 2009
AT EVS-24, STAVANGER, NORWAY, May 13, 2009 -- AeroVironment, Inc. (AV), (NASDAQ: AVAV), joint-developer of the GM Impact, the world's first modern all-electric car, and the record-setting solar-powered GM Sunraycer, today unveiled its portfolio of EV Solutions for electric vehicles that offers a total infrastructure approach to enable the practical use of on-road electric vehicles. -> View More

AV’s Raven Small UAS Achieves 30-Hour Persistent Surveillance in Demonstration with U.S. Army
April 01, 2009

AeroVironment Launches Production of Its New Digital Data Link with $16.8 Million Order
February 09, 2009

AeroVironment Awarded $41.7 Million Contract Option for Raven® Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Support Services
February 04, 2009

AeroVironment's Raven Small Unmanned Aircraft System Receives Military Aircraft Type-Classification Certificate from the Italian Ministry of Defense
December 15, 2008

AeroVironment Receives $4.6 Million in DARPA Funding to Develop Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare UAS Based on Wasp
August 20, 2008

AeroVironment Awarded U.S. Special Operations Command All Environment Capable Variant Small UAS Contract
July 02, 2008
