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Yamaha

FAZER R

Petrol-powered unmanned helicopter with a 32 L spray tank; succeeded the RMAX as Yamaha's agricultural platform.

Current model

Announced

View on global.yamaha-motor.com

Specifications

Every figure below is rendered directly from our source file, so this table cannot drift from what we verified. The source and check date sit alongside each value.

SpecificationValueSourceChecked
Airframe
Airframe TypeUnmanned helicopter, petrol-powered, trapezoid carbon frameglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Dimensions3665 mm long × 770 mm wide × 1078 mm highglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Rotor DiameterMain rotor 3115 mm; tail rotor 550 mmglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Wet Weight71 kgglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Engine
Engine TypeLiquid-cooled 4-stroke OHV 2-valve horizontally opposed twinglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Displacement390 cm³ — bore × stroke 66.0 × 57.0 mmglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Max Output20.6 kW at 6000 rpmglobal.yamaha-motor.com
FuelRegular petrol, 5.8 L tankglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Payload and operation
Spray Tank Capacity32 Lglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Payload32 kg at approx. 300 m altitude and 30 °C; 24 kg at approx. 1000 m and 30 °Cglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Operating AltitudeApproximately 300 m to 1000 mglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Coverage Per Loadapproximately 4 ha — without refuelling or reloadingglobal.yamaha-motor.com
Control
Control SystemYACS II (Yamaha Attitude Control System — Cruise Control)global.yamaha-motor.com
Control Frequencies73 MHz, 10 channelsglobal.yamaha-motor.com

What these figures mean in practice

Our reading of the specifications above. These are not manufacturer claims — every number below is derived from the table, and the trade-offs are ours.

The specification is from 2016, and that is the most important fact here

Everything above comes from Yamaha's launch release of 11 October 2016. It is still the fullest specification Yamaha publishes, but it is nearly a decade old, and the multirotor machines it once competed with have changed out of recognition in that time. Treat this page as a record of what was announced rather than a current buying guide, and confirm anything that matters with Yamaha directly.

Payload falls by a quarter with altitude

32 kg at 300 m drops to 24 kg at 1000 m, both quoted at 30 °C. Yamaha is unusual in publishing the derating explicitly. The multirotor sheets on this site quote maximum takeoff weight "at sea level" and leave the density-altitude penalty for the operator to work out — here it is stated, and it is a 25% reduction.

Petrol changes the endurance question entirely

A 5.8 L fuel tank and a 390 cm³ twin producing 20.6 kW is a different proposition from a battery aircraft: refuelling takes seconds rather than the nine to twelve minutes a DJI pack needs to charge, and there is no battery fleet to buy or manage. Against that, the 71 kg wet weight is carried whether the tank is full or empty, and the machine is a helicopter with the maintenance burden that implies.

A 73 MHz control link

Ten channels at 73 MHz places this firmly in an earlier generation of unmanned aircraft — modern equivalents run 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz digital links with telemetry and video downlink. It is worth checking what that band means for licensing and availability in your jurisdiction before going further.

Our coverage of the FAZER R