AIRlabs Austria
AIRlabs Austria
AIRlabs Austria is an Austria-wide BMK innovation laboratory for the development and operation of infrastructures of unmanned aerial systems.
With a strong partner network, AIRlabs Austria enables holistic test environments for unmanned aerial systems. As a publicly funded institution, we thus make an important contribution to strengthening Austria as a research and business location.
Our benefits
We identify ourselves as your one-stop-shop for research, development, validation and integration of unmanned aerial systems.
Technology fundamentals
Engineering and Simulation
Application-oriented experiments
Specialized laboratories, climatic wind and icing tunnels, indoor drone halls.
Airspaces small
Civil R/TSA areas
Airspaces large
Civil R/TSA areas
Mission Environments UAM
CTR-areas
Mission environments specific
External and internal survey of specific infrastructures
Support
Official authorisation and approval processes
User fees
AIRlabs Infrastructures and airspaces
AIRlabs 2.0
The future of innovative unmanned aviation research
References
Selected projects of AIRlabs Austria in cooperation with industry, research and public institutions.
Projekt 2
Projekt 2 Beschreibung
forschung
Projekt 3
Projekt 3 Beschreibung
öffentlicher sektor
Latest news
News and event information from AIRlabs Austria.
AIRlabs Future Conference 2025: Today and Tomorrow – Global Benchmarks for UAS-Applications
On December 9th, 2025, AIRlabs Austria invites you to the 6th AIRlabs Future Conference at Graz Airport. Under the motto ” Today and Tomorrow – Global Benchmarks for UAS-Applications”, we will look back on six years of pioneering research, strong partnerships, and unique innovations in the field of unmanned aviation – and take a joint look into the future of drone technologies and international collaboration. The conference will also highlight the successful years of AIRlabs Austria as an innovation laboratory – funded by the Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility, and Infrastructure (BMIMI) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) – and take a forward-looking view beyond the funding period: What comes next after the completion of the program? Which new pathways are emerging, and what opportunities lie ahead for research, industry, and authorities[…]
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DroneVation & Defence25 – Working together for protection and security
We, AIRlabs Austria, were represented as exhibitors with the FFG Take Off project Sense & Avoid (S&A) at the first DroneVation & Defence in Vienna – also the first military-oriented event at which we were present. A particular highlight was our S&A poster presentation, which allowed us to illustrate the topic clearly and generate a great deal of interest. The positive response even led to Robin Deutsch, technical project manager at AIRlabs Austria and responsible for Sense & Avoid, being interviewed on site by Militär Aktuell. You can find the interview here: https://militaeraktuell.at/airlabs-bestehende-systeme-genuegen-nicht/ Together with our partners, we are working as consortium lead on this project to close the existing gap between the state of the art in sense-and-avoid systems and civil requirements – with the aim of developing a strategy for future […]
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To the Arctic with drones – AIRlabs Austria supported students in preparing for the Greenland expedition
Freezing temperatures, impressive glacial landscapes and unpredictable weather awaited the FHJ Arctic Expedition Team (AET) on their research trip to Sermilik in East Greenland, home to the Austrian research station run by the University of Graz. Together with lecturers from FH JOANNEUM, their ERASMUS partner university in Copenhagen and other international partners, the students set off for one of the most remote regions in the world. The goal: applied research under extreme conditions, with drones playing a central supporting role. To ensure that these drones could be used safely and efficiently, AIRlabs Austria thoroughly prepared the crew months ahead of departure with a tailor-made […]
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