CAA Certified with Enhanced OSC permissions under CAA No. 2565 and fully insured to £10m+ compliant with EC 785/2004
Based in Sussex in the South East, and providing Drone Aerial Services Operations nationwide throughout the UK and Ireland
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Professional Commercial Drone Services
CAA certification Operational Authorisation (OA) No.2565 | Operating Safety Case No.2565OSC | GVC & A2 CofC Qualified
Drone Media Imaging is a specialist UAV drone service provider, operating from the South East of the UK, but ready and able to deploy across the UK and Ireland.
We are licensed and certified with a CAA Operational Authorisation (OA) for sub 25kg category DAY and NIGHT flights.
With a background and reputation built over many decades in professional commercial photography, we re-trained and re-invested in our business back in 2015 so that we can now provide competitive aerial drone services across many industry sectors. We are also qualified and certified to provide thermal imaging data, not just in the air but also on the ground to cover solar panel inspections, flat roof, and structural water ingress/damage, and building insulation and thermal bridging analysis.
Drone Media Imaging’s pilots are CPL-uS qualified and liability insured. We adhere strictly to guidelines, procedures, planning practices, and risk assessment necessary to ensure the safety of staff, properties, and the general public, as well as to comply with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) legislation, rules and regulations.
Aerial drone photography, video and thermal imaging are not as expensive as you might think and we won’t be beaten on price for comparable service and experience!
We offer simple understandable pricing structures or can quote you specifically for your individual project requirements if you need something we have not covered. Just complete our online enquiry form which provides us with the information we need to offer you an accurate quotation.
Or just get in touch for a chat…
Recent News and Blog
Drone Photography for Jaguar Car Dealership
Aerial photography is a great way to showcase a larger commercial property, demonstrating the size of the plot and the facilities available. This was definitely the case with a local Jaguar dealership who wanted to show the size of their real estate and the amount of cars that they keep in [...]
Aerial Photography as a Tool in Commercial Property Management
We have been working with this particular asset management company for some months now, providing them with updated photographs of their properties working across the UK. On this occasion, we grouped together these three properties in Nottingham, Coventry and Bury to create a small two day 'Northern Tour' to maximise their photography investment with [...]
Professional Property Photography – on the Ground and in the Air
This morning's trip to the 'office' was short which was lovely. Working locally in Sussex, we needed to complete the aerial component of the property photography (we were also carrying out ground level photography) before the store in question was open for business. So it was a bright and early start for us - that's not unusual actually. Quite [...]
Showcase your Property Portfolio with Drone Photography
As part of our ongoing work with a prominent London asset management company, we are working across the UK to provide them with images of their property portfolio. This week, we have been staying close to home in Sussex to capture a property in Haywards Heath that is currently being used as an office building. We work with them [...]
Drones and Construction Projects
As part of a recent series of flights to capture photo and video of this huge construction site, this was a separate flight to capture the impressive glass front of the building from a separate location. This flight took place on a Sunday afternoon as the clients wanted the site to [...]
Drones and Construction Projects
Getting the Bird's Eye View Drones offer a cost efficient way of improving a number of areas of a construction project, vastly cutting down the health and safety requirements of deploying staff to hard to access, high risk areas such as rooftops, and making regular inspection and monitoring both quick and easy. [...]
Enhanced Operating Permissions Granted by the CAA
Drone Media Imaging has been granted enhanced drone operating permissions from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) known as an ‘Operating Safty Case‘ or OSC, which puts us in an exclusive and advanced group of drone operators.
Less than 5% of drone operators currently have such permissions in the UK. Our enhanced permissions allow us to take-off, land, and fly closer to People, Properties, Vehicles and Vessels not under our control, as well as fly above 400ft to 800ft. Standard permissions now called, Operational Authorisation PDRA-01 (previously known as Permission for Commercial Operations PfCO) that the CAA grant normal drone operators are much more restrictive.

Operating under an UAS-OSC for your project is just as straight forward as for any other drone flight mission. The key difference is in the onsite procedures we deploy, safety planning implemented and research completed beforehand. The cost can vary considerably when there is a need to operate under an OSC and is very dependent upon the work required. So the first thing to do is to start a conversation with us about the project, survey/inspection, filming or photography you need to be completed and we can advise you if an OSC is needed in the first place, or whether the work can be completed under standard permissions.
Drone Filming and TV Projects We’ve Completed For Our Clients
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