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Commercial Real Estate
Marketing-grade aerials for developers, brokerage teams, and project launches — full-frame plates cleared for unlimited web, print, OOH, and broadcast use.
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FAA Part 107
$5M Insured
72hr Delivery
Aerial Photography & Drone Cinematography
Altitude,
rendered as
commercial asset.
AirPictorial is a FAA-licensed aerial media studio producing broadcast-grade 8K cinematography and orthomosaic mapping for over 600 commercial clients across North America.
Founder · Maya Okafor
"A building reads as geometry from a thousand feet. Streets read as choreography. Coastlines read as intent. Every flight I have ever flown was for the moment a developer, an architect, or a planner sees their project the way the building actually wants to be seen — from above. That is the work."
— Maya Okafor, Founder & Director of Flight, AirPictorial Media
Featured Reel · 2024
Recent work that earned the trust of developers, hospitality groups, and architecture firms.
- ClientNFL Films
- AircraftDJI Inspire 3 · Freefly Alta X
- DeliveryProRes 4444 · 8K · 62 hours
- RecognitionBroadcast on CBS, Feb 2024
Capabilities
Six ways commercial teams put AirPictorial aircraft to work.
Every capability is flown by a Part 107 pilot-cinematographer, color-graded in-house, and delivered broadcast-ready inside 72 hours.
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Architecture
Site context, hero reveals, and twilight orbits for KPF, BIG, SOM, and peer firms — drone plate and ground cinematography edited as a single visual story.
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Hospitality & Resort
Coastal approaches, pool decks, and amenity reveals for Marriott, Hilton, and independent resort groups — flown at the hour each property photographs best.
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Construction Monitoring
Repeat-flight orthomosaics and progress plates for GC teams and owners — up to 2,400 acres mapped per flight with survey-grade eBee X fixed-wing.
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Mapping & Orthomosaics
Survey-grade aerial mapping, topographic models, and GIS-ready orthomosaics delivered with centimeter accuracy for planners and municipalities.
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Film & Television
Aerial plates for episodic, documentary, and broadcast opens — including the 2024 Super Bowl "Welcome to Vegas" sequence filmed over the Las Vegas Strip.
Verified Credentials
The numbers a risk-averse buyer needs to see before requesting a brief.
- 3,200+
- Commercial aerial assignments delivered since 2016 across 38 U.S. states and 11 countries.
- 14,000+
- Combined flight hours across the AirPictorial pilot roster, with a zero-incident record.
- 71%
- Average client rebooking rate within 12 months — the highest in the aerial production category.
- 72hr
- Average shoot-to-delivery turnaround on standard assignments, fully licensed for unlimited marketing use.
- FAA Part 107 Certified
- $5M Aviation Liability
- 600+ Commercial Clients
- 2024 Best Aerial Production — NA Drone Industry Awards
Process · Brief to Deliverable
From intake to deliverable, four numbered chapters.
Every AirPictorial project moves through the same four chapters. Clients stay inside the AirLog workflow app throughout the flight, reviewing and approving plates in real time.
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Brief
A 30-minute intake call confirms site, intent, deliverables, and the hour the asset photographs best. You receive a fixed-scope quote and a flight window inside 24 hours.
Avg. intake to quote · 18 hours
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Flight
A Part 107 pilot-cinematographer flies the assignment from our owned fleet — DJI Inspire 3, Mavic 3 Cine, Freefly Alta X, or survey-grade eBee X — while you watch in AirLog.
Live review · 0 minutes lag
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Grade
Raw DNG plates move to an in-house colorist for broadcast-ready ProRes 4444. No outsourcing, no offshore pass — every frame graded against the reference board you signed off in Brief.
Avg. grade · 34 hours
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Deliver
Final files land in your AirLog vault fully licensed for unlimited web, print, OOH, and broadcast use. Average shoot-to-delivery across all projects: 68 hours.
Avg. delivery · 68 hours
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