Archer Aviation (ACHR) took the stage at Farnborough on Wednesday to unveil Halo, a commercial autonomous aircraft built alongside defense technology company Anduril Industries. ACHR stock was down 1.61% at the time of the announcement.
Halo is the commercial counterpart to Anduril’s Thunder, a defense-focused aircraft revealed earlier this week at the same airshow. The two aircraft share the same airframe, hybrid-electric propulsion system and core technologies.
The platform is a clean-sheet design, meaning it was built from scratch rather than adapted from an existing aircraft. Archer CEO Adam Goldstein said the company used eight years of electric aviation research to inform the new platform.
Anduril Thunder for defense. Archer Halo for commercial.
Same clean-sheet autonomous, hybrid-electric VTOL platform, built with @anduriltech to serve two different domains.
Halo is designed for an array of uncrewed commercial missions across search & rescue, logistics,… pic.twitter.com/pNJeV0ev0U
— Archer (@flyarcher) July 22, 2026
“We partnered with Anduril to take all of that knowledge and build something new: a clean-sheet aircraft in a completely different class of range, speed and payload,” Goldstein said.
Halo uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain paired with dual tiltrotors. The tiltrotor setup is designed to improve efficiency across different phases of flight while keeping noise levels low during takeoff and landing.
The aircraft operates fully autonomously, with no onboard pilot required. That’s a key feature for the commercial cargo missions Archer is targeting.
The aircraft is also designed to be transported in a standard shipping container, making it deployable by air, road, rail or sea. Archer said the platform is built for high-volume production using commercial supply chains.
Halo is aimed at use cases where conventional aircraft fall short — long-range cargo delivery to locations without runways.
Specific target applications include offshore energy resupply, freight transport, humanitarian aid, medical cargo delivery and maritime operations. These are markets where payload capacity, range and autonomous capability are more important than passenger comfort.
Archer named Marubeni Aerospace Corporation as the strategic launch partner for Halo. Marubeni Aerospace is a subsidiary of Japan’s Marubeni Corporation and represents several international aircraft and helicopter manufacturers.
The two companies will collaborate on market research, identifying commercial use cases and planning future deployment of the aircraft.
Satoru Nakagawa, President and CEO of Marubeni Aerospace, said Halo’s autonomous capabilities combined with its range, payload and VTOL design make it “a highly suitable solution” for the markets it is targeting.
Archer said additional launch partners are expected to be announced before the end of 2026.
The Farnborough International Airshow is one of the aerospace industry’s biggest venues for commercial aircraft announcements and partnership deals, and has increasingly become a platform for emerging aviation technologies including electric and autonomous flight.
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