The slow way to see Cappadocia.

AERE is building Wanderer, a hybrid-electric passenger airship for scenic flight, and Kuzgun, a persistent aerial platform. Designed in Istanbul. Flying first over Cappadocia.

Side view 62.0 m 15.5 m gondola 12 m ballonets generator motor pod Plan view Front view
Wanderer airship render over a mountain lake
Wanderer, concept render

Why an airship

Quiet and slow

Cruise at 50 km/h with electric motors. Panoramic windows. No rotor noise over the valleys.

Hours, not minutes

Eight hours of endurance on a small fuel load. A full day of flights on one fill.

Helium lift

Non-flammable helium carries the ship; the motors only steer and push. Static heaviness under 2%.

Built to certify

Designed to the gas-airship class of Türkiye's SHT-21 rules, aligned with EASA Part 21, using the published SC-GAS basis.

Two platforms, one hull family

Wanderer

Scenic passenger flight over Cappadocia. 16 seats, sunrise to sunset.

Kuzgun

Persistent aerial platform for surveillance, communications relay and disaster response. Patented modular heritage since 2011.

A decade of flight testing

Our chief engineer has built more than 80 sub-scale airships since 2012 and flown around 40 of them. A full-size prototype envelope has been built and inflated in the team hangar. This is where the design numbers come from.

Technology

Full-size prototype airship envelope inflated inside a hangar
Full-size prototype envelope in the team hangar (photo).

Where we are

Wanderer hybrid-electric v1 is a conceptual design completed in September 2026. It is pre-certification and pre-production. We are preparing the certification pre-application with the Turkish civil aviation authority (SHGM) and raising a pre-seed round.