Albuquerque brands compete on setting — the Sandias behind the patio, the mesa light, the biggest sky in the Southwest. Aerial video is how you put that setting in the campaign. We shoot FAA-certified brand and marketing content across the metro.
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured · LAANC Authorized · 5.0★ from 271 Google reviews
Desert Drones provides FAA Part 107–certified drone videography and advertising services across the Albuquerque metro — brand and commercial films, business and facility content, development and land marketing, venue and hospitality campaigns, and social-ready aerial photo and video. Assets are edited, color-graded, and delivered sized for every platform the campaign runs on.
Aerial earns its slot in a campaign three ways: scale, setting, and energy.
Campaign-ready assets — graded, cut, and sized to run.
Real New Mexico frames — a working Albuquerque facility, a campus, and the land campaigns run on.
An Albuquerque logistics operation shown at scale — the aerial that makes a working business look like the established brand it is.
ABQ · BRAND
Campuses and institutions framed with their architecture and setting — the establishing content admissions and development teams run.
SANTA FE · CAMPUS
Terrain, access, and setting shown from above — the launch content land and development campaigns are built on.
LAND · LAUNCHWe produce aerial marketing across the Albuquerque metro with FAA Part 107–certified New Mexico pilots, and handle the LAANC authorizations the Sunport/Kirtland Class C requires.
Real client work from our pilots — the kind of aerial content that anchors a campaign.
From brief to campaign-ready assets — here's the path.
Tell us the goal, the property or brand, and where the assets run. We scope the shoot and the deliverables.
Licensed pilots capture hero stills and video — standard aerials or cinematic FPV — with LAANC pulled ahead and light timed for the look.
Assets are color-graded and cut to your brand look and platform sizes.
Campaign-ready photo and video by shared link, ready to run across web, social, and paid.
Albuquerque is a setting-rich, film-literate market — aerial is how you use that.
One of the busiest production states in the country sets the bar for footage here — we deliver to it.
Patios, taprooms, and venues sell the New Mexico experience — aerial puts the Sandias and the sky in the frame.
West Side growth and East Mountains land campaigns live on showing scale and setting from the air.
Much of the metro sits inside the Sunport/Kirtland Class C. We pull the LAANC authorization before every flight.
Campaign footage has to be legal to run and polished enough to represent the brand — that takes a licensed, insured production operation.
Marketing clients often bundle these — same New Mexico pilots, same shoot when it makes sense.
Brand and commercial films, business and facility content, development and land marketing, venue campaigns, and social-ready aerial photo and video — standard aerials or cinematic FPV.
Yes — much of the metro is Class C airspace around the Sunport and Kirtland AFB. We hold Part 107 certification and pull LAANC for each flight.
Edited, color-graded, campaign-ready assets sized for each platform — not raw clips.
Yes — footage is graded to your brand, and we cut sequences for the specific channels you're running.
FAA Part 107 certified and fully insured, with a certificate of insurance on request.
Turnaround is fast — assets are typically back in days so they're live while the campaign is fresh.
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.
Tell us the campaign and the goal — we'll scope the shoot and get you a quote.
