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Specialty Drone Documentation · Florida

Specialized Aerial Operations & Custom Deployments

Custom aerial documentation for unusual sites, one-time events, insurance and legal records, and one-off projects across Florida. Tell us the site and the question you need answered, and we build the right capture around it. Certified, insured, and used to the odd request.

FAA Part 107 CertifiedFully InsuredStatewide + Travel
Custom scopes of work

Complex projects require custom operational scoping

Many of our highest-value enterprise deployments begin with a unique operational challenge. A scene that has to be documented before it changes, a site nobody has a good record of, an event that happens once, a question an insurer or an attorney needs answered with dated evidence. That’s where a custom flight beats a template.

Our approach is the same one we use everywhere, just without the box around it. We start with what you’re trying to capture and why, then choose the sensor, the flight plan, and the deliverable to match. Sometimes that is a simple set of photos, sometimes it’s thermal, mapping, or a defensible documentation package.

What doesn’t change is who is flying: a Part 107 certified, insured pilot who handles the airspace and has probably shot a version of your project before. From the Keys to the Panhandle, the unusual ones are most of what lands on our calendar.

Where It Fits

Specialty work we take on

A sample of the one-off and custom projects clients bring us. If yours isn’t here, ask anyway.

Insurance & restoration

Dated, geotagged records of damage and conditions for claims and restoration scoping.

Legal & forensic records

Defensible documentation of a scene or site captured and labeled for legal use.

High-Value & Single-Day Deployments

Openings, tournaments, and gatherings where there’s exactly one chance to capture it.

Master-Planned Communities & Expansive Properties

Sprawling sites that need a planned flight to document the whole thing well.

Unusual sites

Places that don’t have a good existing record and are hard to capture from the ground.

Custom deliverables

Whatever the finished product needs to be, scoped to your use rather than a fixed list.

Have a site or an asset that needs documenting?Tell us the asset and the deadline. We’ll scope it and price it.

Interior aerial documentation of a monumental historic stained-glass installation
Case Study

Non-destructive reality capture of a historic interior

The Challenge

Documenting historic architecture and ultra-fragile interior assets, like monumental stained-glass installations, carries real structural and operational risk. Physical inspection means erecting costly scaffolding that disrupts site operations, restricts access, and introduces genuine liability for damaging the asset. Capturing the same work from the ground fails to reach elevated detail cleanly, which leaves restoration craftsmen without the spatial context precision preservation planning requires.

The Solution

We deployed a low-impact indoor aerial documentation workflow built specifically for high-consequence heritage environments. Navigating a structurally complex, tight indoor footprint demands absolute precision and seasoned flight experience. Using advanced stabilization and non-destructive capture configurations, we audited the asset at elevation and captured uniform, high-fidelity spatial data across the whole installation without ever making physical contact with the structure or the historical elements around it.

The Result

The finished visual ledger gave the restoration team total spatial clarity on the asset’s current condition. Replacing heavy physical staging with an agile aerial pipeline eliminated early-stage scaffolding overhead, reduced structural liability premiums, and preserved day-to-day operations. The master craftsmen could analyze structural condition remotely, which shortened the diagnostic timeline while a priceless historical asset stayed entirely protected.

zero contactno scaffolding, no physical staging
FAQ

Specialty documentation questions

What clients ask us most about custom and one-off drone projects.

What counts as a specialty project?

Anything that doesn’t fit neatly into inspection, mapping, construction, or standard media. Unusual sites, one-time events, insurance and restoration documentation, legal and forensic records, marina and golf course capture, and custom deliverables a client dreams up. If you’re not sure which service you need, this is the conversation to start with.

Can you document a property or scene for insurance or legal use?

Yes. We produce dated, geotagged, high-resolution records of a site or scene that hold up as documentation for insurance claims, restoration scoping, and legal matters. When the record needs to be defensible, we capture and label it with that in mind.

Do you handle events and one-time shoots?

We do. Grand openings, tournaments, large gatherings, and other single-day events where you get one shot to get it right. We plan the flight, clear the airspace, and carry commercial insurance, which is exactly what you want backing a flight over a full venue.

What if my project is genuinely unusual?

That’s what this service is for. Tell us the site and what you’re trying to capture, and we’ll figure out the right sensor, flight plan, and deliverable, or tell you straight if a drone isn’t the right tool. We’d rather scope it properly than force it into a package.

Where in Florida will you travel for a specialty job?

Statewide, and beyond for the right scope. We’re based in Orlando and cover the whole state, and we travel for larger regional and national projects when the job justifies it.

Start here

Tell us about your project

Describe the site or the event and what you need out of it. You’ll hear back within a business day with an approach and a quote, or a straight answer if a drone isn’t the right fit.

(321) 209-4359 · info@leadingedgedrones.com
100 E Pine St, Suite 110 · Orlando, FL 32801
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured

Describe the project

Give us the basics and we’ll be in touch quickly.