About Us

Birds Eye Aerial Drones, LLC is San Diego’s leading Drone Service company. A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business providing professional birds eye aerial imagery. To assist you, we provide easy to implement, turnkey aerial imagery solutions. Solutions including acquiring, processing, and delivering aerial imagery to our customers.

Our Values

  • Integrity
  • Excellence
  • Safety
  • Innovation
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion
  • Teamwork

At Birds Eye Aerial Drones these are the very character traits we strive to employ. In addition, we exercise sound judgment and strict flight discipline every day with every flight. Consequently, we are responsible aviation professionals who pilot our growing fleet of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).

Join Our Team

At Birds Eye Aerial Drones, we are on the lookout for great pilots. If you are a highly motivated, detail-oriented and safety-minded individual, please complete the Non-Disclosure Agreement below. We look forward to hearing from you.

Aerial Imagery in San Diego

Solutions including acquiring, processing, and delivering aerial imagery to our customers. Do you require actionable aerial data for mapping and agriculture or aerial imagery for the utility or entertainment industry? If so, we have just the right solution to meet your needs.

Aerial Intelligence Excellence at Birds Eye Aerial Drones

Birds Eye employs expert technology to outfit its fleet of drones. Another key point to consider is our experienced pilots who perform operations that are always safe, legal, and insured. We don’t just fly drones and capture imagery, we provide intelligence that adds value to our customers business. We’ve created strategic partnerships such as CA Certified Survey and Environmental firms. We put drone technology to work for you.

As required by law, our pilots have a Part 107 Remote Pilot in Command Certificate with a UAS Rating. Along with the aforementioned, our pilots have years experience with fixed-wing and rotor wing UAS piloting experience. Willing to travel worldwide.

Birds Eye Aerial Drones, LLC was founded in 2014 by Scott Painter. After retiring from the Navy, Scott obtained his BA in Aviation Management as well as his MBA and worked overseas in Afghanistan. Then, based on his life-long love of flying and technology, he created this company. A point often overlooked is that we were among the first companies granted permission for commercial use of UAS.

Birds Eye Philanthropy

Here at Birds Eye Aerial Drones, we know that to those who much is given, much is expected. To that end, we have donated our aerial imagery and supporting services to one non-profit yearly since 2016. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then who knows how much a  video is worth. We are happy to announce that our non-profit recipient for the year 2021 will be Enlisted Leadership Foundation. We are happy to have partnered with the following organizations in an effort to further their cause and message: Organizations in TrainingSVBBQFestUrban Surf 4 Kids, United Thru Reading.

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

BEAD Global HQ

1940 Joe Crosson Dr
El Cajon, CA 92020

Contact us

(619) 886-0100
info@bead.global

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First and foremost, BEAD is an SDVOSB company providing turnkey aerial imaging solutions and consulting to help you improve your ROI. For example, do you require actionable aerial data for mapping & environmental monitoring? Perhaps aerial imagery for the entertainment, AEC, utility or communications industry? In fact, we’ve got just the right solution to meet your needs.
Above all, we observe all local, state & federal flight safety regulations, as applicable and are $10M insured.

First and foremost, BEAD is an SDVOSB company providing turnkey aerial imaging solutions and consulting to help you improve your ROI. For example, do you require actionable aerial data for mapping & environmental monitoring? Perhaps aerial imagery for the entertainment, AEC, utility or communications industry? In fact, we’ve got just the right solution to meet your needs.
Above all, we observe all local, state & federal flight safety regulations, as applicable and are $10M insured.