Proudly Canadian · Est. 2024
Agricultural aircraft, flight electronics, sensors and telemetry. We design them, build the boards ourselves, and publish specs we can back up.
Canadian-owned & operated
Designed and built in Ontario
Every product shows where it is: now quoting, prototype, or in development.
Agricultural UAV
A coaxial octocopter set up for Canadian agricultural research and production work. One airframe carries either a 100 L spray system or a 150 L spreader, with RTK positioning and ArduPilot mission control. Every unit ships as a complete field package: aircraft, ground station, generator and documentation.
Electronics
An ArduPilot flight controller, designed and built here.
Sensors
A 360° triangulating scanner for indoor robots.
Wildlife telemetry
GPS and VHF telemetry for bird research.
Canada should be able to design and build its own unmanned systems. We're a Canadian company doing that work here, one board and one aircraft at a time.
Canadian-owned
CanuckAviation is owned and run in Canada. No foreign parent company.
Designed in Canada
Engineering, PCB layout and firmware are done in-house in Ontario.
Built in Canada
Boards are fabricated and assembled on our own line, and aircraft are integrated in our shop.
Supported from here
When you need help, a Canadian engineer answers, in your time zone.
What we do in-house
CanuckAviation builds unmanned aircraft and the technology around them: flight electronics, sensors and telemetry. The same team takes a design from the first requirements to a flying aircraft.
PCB
Schematic, layout, fabrication and assembly on our own line: photoresist imaging, etching, solder mask and reflow. We can change a board in days without waiting on an overseas fab.
FW
ArduPilot integration and tuning, bare-metal and RTOS firmware on nRF52 and ESP32, and BLE and RF bring-up.
RF
Antenna feed and matching-network layout, low-power radio design, and GNSS/VHF telemetry for tracking hardware.
SNS
Optical ranging, IMU and GNSS integration, and payload control, from first-principles error budgets to calibration.
INT
Airframe, propulsion, power and payload integration on open autopilots. We supply parameter files, logs and documentation, not a locked black box.
GCS
Mission planning, telemetry and logging, and the ground-side tools that turn flight logs into field records you can use.
"Made in Canada" means we built it here. Aircraft built from imported frames, motors and autopilots are labelled "Integrated in Canada", and the spec sheet lists the parts.
Open autopilots, published parameter files and full logs. Your aircraft and your data stay yours. There is no vendor cloud in the loop.
Estimates are marked as estimates. Anything we haven't measured yet says so.
Where the name comes from
The CF-100 was designed and built in Malton, Ontario, and first flew in 1950. It is the only Canadian-designed fighter ever to enter mass production. For three decades the RCAF flew it over the Arctic, in cloud and at night. It showed that Canadians could design and build their own aircraft, and that's the idea we build on.
Government · Research · Agencies
We take on custom UAS, sensor and telemetry work for agencies, research institutions and integrators who need a domestic supplier and hardware they can inspect.
Work with us →Write to us and an engineer will reply. There's no sales queue.
chris@canuckaviation.ca