Commercial drone inspections. Field-proven aerial documentation.
Ballantine Drone Services provides commercial drone inspections, thermal imaging, infrastructure inspections and aerial documentation throughout Southwest Florida and nationwide.
Southwest Florida commercial drone services
Ballantine Drone Services is a Southwest Florida commercial drone inspection and aerial imaging company founded in 2019 and owned and operated by Richard Ballantine, an FAA Part 107 commercial drone pilot.
Based in Southwest Florida, Ballantine Drone Services provides professional drone inspections, infrastructure inspections, thermal drone imaging, storm-damage documentation, roof inspections, construction progress photography, interior drone inspections, utility inspections, wastewater and sewer-field inspections, aerial photography, and emergency-response drone services.
The company has completed extensive drone inspection and documentation work throughout Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Lee County, Collier County, Charlotte County, and Southwest Florida, as well as infrastructure assignments throughout the United States.
Disaster response and difficult-access inspections
Ballantine Drone Services performed extensive field work following Hurricane Ian, documenting storm damage to residential, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure properties. Projects have included inspections of condemned buildings, damaged structures, roofs, utilities, sewer and wastewater facilities, interior spaces, and difficult or unsafe areas where traditional inspections were limited or impractical.
Past experience includes work for Pine Island Water Management, infrastructure inspection work involving Florida Power & Light (FPL), and projects supporting public adjusters, insurance companies, property management companies, contractors, disaster-recovery organizations, and emergency-response companies.
Visual information that helps clients act
Ballantine Drone Services uses professional drone technology, high-resolution aerial imaging, and thermal imaging to help clients document property conditions, identify potential problems, monitor construction, inspect infrastructure, assess storm damage, and collect visual information from areas that are difficult, dangerous, or expensive to access manually.
Commercial drone services include
- Infrastructure and utility drone inspections
- Thermal drone inspections and infrared imaging
- Roof and building inspections
- Hurricane and storm-damage documentation
- Insurance and public-adjuster documentation
- Condemned and damaged-building inspections
- Interior and difficult-access drone inspections
- Sewer and wastewater infrastructure inspections
- Construction progress photography and documentation
- Commercial property inspections
- Emergency-response and disaster-recovery support
- High-resolution aerial photography and video
- Custom commercial and industrial drone operations
Built for field conditions
With experience in disaster response, insurance documentation, utility infrastructure, property inspection, construction, thermal imaging, and commercial drone operations, Ballantine Drone Services provides aerial inspection and documentation services for clients who need accurate visual information from the air, indoors, or in locations that are difficult to reach safely.