A Texas aerial company built around the deliverable
Texas Aerial Group exists because of a gap: plenty of people own drones. What clients actually need varies — a roofer filing a claim needs findings, an agent needs images that sell a listing, a producer needs the shot on the day. Underneath, they all need the same thing: someone licensed who shows up, flies it properly, and hands over something usable when they said they would.
So that’s the operation. A licensed pilot, an enterprise aircraft with a radiometric thermal camera and a floodlight for night work, and a delivery pipeline that turns every flight into something worth paying for — a report, a photo set, or a cut — on a schedule you can plan around.
Credentials, in plain terms
- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate — the federal license for commercial drone operations. Flying commercially without it is illegal; plenty of people do anyway. We don’t.
- $2M liability insurance, plus hull coverage on the aircraft — certificates available on request, with additional-insured endorsements for productions, GCs, and site owners. Liability protects you; hull protects us. Productions asking for a full certificate want to see both.
- Airspace authorization handled — LAANC clearance for controlled airspace around Austin-Bergstrom and other Texas airports, filed before we quote a date.
What we fly with
- DJI Matrice 4T — an enterprise airframe with a radiometric thermal camera and laser rangefinder on board. Not a hobby drone with a phone clipped to it: thermal readings come with temperature data you can put in a report.
- Manifold 3 onboard computer — processing that happens on the aircraft rather than back at the desk, which is what makes same-night turnarounds realistic.
- Mounted floodlight — the piece most operators don’t carry. It means we work after dark: storm response the night it hits, thermal scans with usable visual reference on the same flight, and lighting for night exteriors on a set.
Where we fly
Based in Austin. Roof, thermal, and listing work concentrates in Central Texas; solar farms, construction schedules, and production days take us statewide — San Antonio, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, West Texas.
Travel terms are on the pricing page: free within 60 miles of Austin, $1.20/mile beyond, waived on recurring schedules.
What we promise
Inspection reports land within 48 hours of the flight. Listing photos land the next business day. Production footage is handed off the same night. A finding you get next week is a finding you can’t act on this week — and a listing photo that arrives after the sign goes up is worth nothing.
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