Hi PX4 community, I’m interested in helping improve airship support in PX4 and would appreciate maintainer/community guidance before preparing any PRs. I reviewed the existing Airship/Cloudship work. Cloudline’s contribution seems to have been an important first step: it introduced the initial PX4…

Update: I’ve opened a first PR toward this — PX4-Autopilot #27517 — restoring the Cloudship’s tail-thruster yaw. The tail thruster was the yaw actuator in the original (2020) mixer, but became unused after the move to control allocation: manual passthrough leaves lateral thrust at zero, and since t…

Update: I created a small reference repository for the non-rigid airship baseline I am using as background: [image] GitHub - linearust/non-rigid-airship-reference: Technical reference material on non-rigid airship... Technical reference material on non-rigid airship configuration…

Update: Opened PX4-Autopilot #27697 — a first generic airship airframe: a cruciform tail (two forward thrusters + two elevators / two rudders), config-only on the existing manual-passthrough stack, bench-verified on a Cube Orange.

I’ve split this work across a few PRs, which I realize makes it harder to review — sorry about that. Here’s a map to make it easier to follow. PR Topic Scope What it does #27697 Generic airship Config · airframe + docs Adds the 2500_generic_airship airframe — two collective forward thruster…

Proposal: generic airship support for PX4

PX4 Autopilot

Linearust June 18, 2026, 5:39am 4

Small related update: I opened a separate focused question on the airship airframe ID range and generic airship ID.

Topic		Replies	Views
Airship airframe ID range and generic airship ID PX4 Autopilot	1	24	June 19, 2026
New vehicle type: Airship PX4 Autopilot	2	2295	August 24, 2020
PX4 Community Q&A: September 20, 2023 PX4 Autopilot	3	489	September 20, 2023
PX4 Dev Call: March 04, 2020 PX4 Autopilot	0	692	February 26, 2020
PX4 Dev Call: June 26, 2019 PX4 Autopilot	1	559	June 26, 2019

Proposal: generic airship support for PX4

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