Airships are coming back — not as nostalgia, but as a tool the world quietly set aside and now needs again. New logistics. The most remote corners of the planet. Transport, supply and connection where nothing else reaches.
Built and flying today — not a render, not a concept.
Continuing a discipline, not rediscovering it
One disaster in 1937 ended an era and froze the idea in public memory. But the physics never failed — the materials, the controls and the purpose did.
All three have changed. Modern composites, autonomous flight control and a world that suddenly needs slow, efficient, far-reaching flight have brought the airship back as a serious engineering answer — not a museum piece.
This is the one place we prove rather than promise. Two real aircraft, built and flying — every flight feeding the larger NOVA program.
Flying today
NOVA-01 · experimental laboratory
NOVA-01 shares the same proportions, control geometry and propulsion layout as the aircraft it exists to prove. It flies today as an experimental laboratory — and every flight feeds directly into the larger NOVA aircraft.
Validating in flight
In test
AEROLET-01 · hybrid design
AEROLET-01 earns lift both aerostatically and aerodynamically — a hybrid design built and flying in test. It widens the envelope of what the program can carry, and how far.
Status
NOVA-2 is being built as a flying laboratory — and the platform the whole line scales from.
NOVA-2 is being built as a flying laboratory in three configurations. It is the reference platform the whole line scales from — proven first by NOVA-01, then grown to size.
NOVA-01 & AEROLET-01 · hangar
First markets — deliberately practical
Long, stable time on station over land and coastline.
Inspection and environmental control across hard terrain.
Supply where roads, ports and runways do not reach.
Persistent overwatch and reach for search and rescue.
Operators who need range, endurance and a steady platform.
Wide-area imaging and survey at a calm, low altitude.
Passenger and tourism flight come later, after certification. We lead with what airships can do now — practical work, in the real world, today.
AERONOVA brings together engineers who have designed, built and flown real airships — not a startup discovering the field, but a team continuing it.
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Vadim Zubkevich
Chief Designer
02
Fyodor Konstantinov
Chief Technology Officer
03
Boris Ivchenko
Head of Design Office
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Dmitriy Khmel
Chief Research Officer
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Ruslan Arslanov
Production Manager
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Milad Ranaei
Lead ACS & AI Specialist
Pick the door that fits. No pressure, no hype — just the program, and how close you want to be to it.
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02 · Partner
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