The aircraft.
The pilots.
The sensors.
Eleven airframes flown by FAA Part 107 certified pilot-cinematographers with a combined 14,000+ flight hours and a zero-incident record across 3,200 commercial missions.
An FAA Part 107 fleet, an in-house colorist, and a 72-hour clock that has not missed in eight years.
AirPictorial operates an 11-aircraft fleet out of four U.S. hubs. Every aircraft is flown by a certified Part 107 pilot-cinematographer; every project is finished by an in-house colorist who delivers broadcast-ready ProRes 4444 from raw DNG inside 72 hours. Since founding in Portland in 2016, the studio has logged 14,000+ combined flight hours across 3,200 commercial assignments in 38 states and 11 countries — without a single aviation incident.
The fleet is engineered to match the assignment: cinema-grade aerial cinematography for hospitality and resort campaigns, survey-grade mapping for development documentation, and thermal and lidar payloads for inspection and infrastructure work.
The four airframes a buyer will most often see on a project.
Each aircraft is paired with a role and the assignment type it flies most — chosen by the producer for the camera, the conditions, and the deliverable.
Six additional airframes and the sensor payloads they carry.
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Inspection
DJI Matrice 350 RTK · Thermal & lidar payloads
Industrial inspections and infrastructure documentation with FLIR thermal and Velodyne lidar sensor packages. RTK positioning for centimeter-accurate survey.
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NDVI
DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise · NDVI multispectral
Agricultural and environmental imaging with calibrated multispectral sensors. Standardized NDVI output for crop health and land-cover analysis.
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Editorial
Autel EVO Lite+ · Compact cinema
Lightweight 6K platform for travel-grade editorial assignments and tight interior-to-exterior transitional shots.
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Tracking
Skydio 2+ · Autonomous tracking
Obstacle-aware autonomous flight for repeatable tracking shots and GPS-denied environments. Used on action, automotive, and talent-follow assignments.
Approve shots in real time, while the aircraft is still in the air.
AirLog is the studio's proprietary review-and-approval app. Live plates stream from the pilot's controller to a private client portal during the flight — clients comment, mark selects, and approve frames before the aircraft lands.
- Live plate stream. Clips and stills delivered from the aircraft to the client's portal within seconds of capture.
- In-app comments. Producers and clients leave timestamped notes on selects during the flight.
- Reshoot risk eliminated. Coverage is confirmed before the drone lands — no second-day fly-backs for missed angles.
- Full audit trail. Every approval, comment, and revision is timestamped and exportable for production records.
The four numbers a procurement team needs before signing a brief.
- Part 107 FAA Part 107 certified pilots on every assignment, with full Section 333 waiver documentation where required.
- $5M Aviation liability insurance carried on every commercial flight, with additional coverage available per project.
- 0 Aviation incidents across 3,200 commercial missions flown since the studio was founded in 2016.
- 71% Average client rebooking rate within 12 months — the cleanest signal that the work and the workflow hold up.
FAA Section 333 and Part 107 documentation, certificates of insurance, and pilot logbooks supplied with every proposal.