New Mexico is building — multifamily and industrial along the I-25 corridor, master plans at Mesa del Sol and Volterra, and institutional work from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. Drone progress documentation gives owners, GCs, and lenders the same view of the site every week. We fly it FAA-certified, insured, and on schedule.
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured · LAANC Authorized · 5.0★ from 271 Google reviews
Desert Drones provides FAA Part 107–certified construction drone services across the Albuquerque metro and northern New Mexico — scheduled progress aerials, orthomosaic site maps, milestone and draw-inspection documentation, renovation records, and marketing footage of active projects. Our New Mexico pilots recently documented a campus building renovation in Santa Fe — structural steel, scaffolding, and envelope work — the same documentation we deliver for ground-up builds across the metro.
One flight, the whole site — here's what a progress package covers.
Organized, dated, shareable — documentation your PM can actually use.
Real projects, not stock — including a college campus renovation in Santa Fe documented by our New Mexico pilots.
A Santa Fe college campus renovation — structural steel, scaffolding, and envelope work documented from the air by our New Mexico pilots.
SANTA FE · REAL PROJECT
Vertical progress across a multifamily site — framing, decking, and roof membrane going down — the week-over-week record that keeps owners and lenders current.
MULTIFAMILY
Institutional and public work documented with the consistency bond-funded projects require — dated, organized, and ready for the owner's file.
INSTITUTIONALThe Santa Fe campus project above was flown by our licensed New Mexico pilots, with the airspace coordination institutional sites require. Ground-up build, renovation, or master plan — the documentation package is the same discipline.
Set the schedule once — then the documentation just shows up.
Send the site plan and what you need documented — progress, orthos, milestones, marketing. We scope the flight plan and cadence.
Same angles every flight, LAANC pulled ahead, weather windows planned around spring winds and monsoon season.
Photos edited and organized by date; orthos stitched; clips cut for stakeholder updates.
Everything lands in a shared link your whole team can use, flight after flight.
Albuquerque's building wave has specific documentation demands — we fly them.
Mesa del Sol, Volterra, and Rio Rancho's growth corridors need the wide view — phasing, roads, and lot progress in one frame.
Campuses, schools, and public projects from Albuquerque to Santa Fe need bond-grade documentation — dated, consistent, and organized.
Spring winds and July–September monsoons are real constraints — we fly morning windows and build weather flex into the schedule.
The Sunport/Kirtland Class C covers much of the metro. We pull LAANC before every flight.
Construction documentation has to hold up — to the lender, the owner, and sometimes the courtroom. That takes a licensed, insured operation.
Construction clients often bundle these — same New Mexico pilots, often the same flight.
Weekly, biweekly, or milestone-based — most GCs pick a cadence tied to draws and owner reporting. Same angles every flight.
Yes. Much of the metro sits in Class C airspace; we hold Part 107 certification and pull the LAANC authorization for each flight.
Yes — top-down, to-scale orthos for laydown planning and as-built comparison, exported for your team's tools.
Yes — most recently a college campus renovation in Santa Fe: structural steel, scaffolding, and envelope work documented by our New Mexico pilots.
We plan flights around morning weather windows and build flex days into the schedule — documentation cadence survives the weather.
FAA Part 107 certified and insured with $2M liability coverage — certificate of insurance available for your GC file.
Rated 5.0★ from 271 verified Google reviews across our locations.
John and team are the consummate professionals! Very reliable, quick, and high quality deliverables!
Professional, efficient, and easy to work with. The team delivered clean, high-quality aerials and communicated clearly throughout the project.
Needed work done quickly for drone photography. They responded quickly, knew exactly what was required, and explained it well — great customer service.
John was a professional and very knowledgeable. He made the process of getting drone footage seamless and did an exceptional job.
Absolutely amazing experience with Desert Drones. They did a shoot for my business and made my product really speak for itself!
John is a true professional. Every time we need drone photography or videography done, he is excited to take on the project.
Send the site and what you need — progress, orthos, milestones — and we'll quote a cadence your project team can build around.
