Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station via a system information block (SIB), a random access configuration associated with aerial UEs, wherein the random access configuration indicates one or more aerial UE specific parameters. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a random access message during a random access procedure based at least in part on the one or more aerial UE specific parameters indicated in the random access configuration associated with aerial UEs. Numerous other aspects are described.