Do you fly drones in Lancaster, PA?

Yes. Lancaster is outside Chester County, and it is still covered. There is no distance limit and no radius rule; travel beyond the usual run is costed with the quote.

What does insurance and claim documentation cost in Lancaster?

$325 per property in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Four or more properties a month is priced lower on a standing arrangement. Quoted prices are valid 90 days.

What kind of drone work do you do most in Lancaster?

Mostly marketing & brand, real estate, construction here, though all four packaged lines and the services quoted per project are available anywhere I fly. Lancaster is the furthest west I regularly go, and the only proper city in the service area.

Are you insured and FAA certified to fly in Lancaster?

Yes. Every flight is by an FAA Part 107 certified remote pilot, and the site itself is insured through SkyWatch — $1M of commercial liability bound for your address before the flight, with a certificate naming you as additional insured issued with it. Work in or near controlled airspace needs LAANC authorization arranged in advance.

Lancaster County, PA

Drone photography in Lancaster

Lancaster is the furthest west I regularly go, and the only proper city in the service area. Dense downtown, a lot of adaptive reuse, and airspace that changes from one end of town to the other.

Lancaster Airport's controlled airspace sits north of the city rather than over it, and knowing exactly where that line falls is worth more than it sounds. Downtown is uncontrolled and flies to the standard 400 feet. The north end of town is inside the shelf, where the FAA grid drops to 300 and an authorization has to be filed through LAANC before the flight. Same city, two different jobs.

What is worth flying here is the reuse. Old industrial buildings turning into something else photograph badly from the street and well from the air, because the thing you are actually selling is the footprint, the roof and the block it sits on.

Claim and property documentation here is $325 per property, the Pennsylvania rate — the same as Chester and Delaware County, because the $50 step on the sheet is a state line rather than a distance. Everything else in Lancaster is quoted per project. There is no distance limit; the trip is costed with the job.

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Lancaster, ringed — 29 miles north-west of West Grove, over the county line into Lancaster County. Filled dots are Chester County, hollow ones the counties past it, and every town sits at its real coordinates.

Part 107FAA certified remote pilot
$1MCommercial drone liability
LAANCControlled airspace authorization
West GroveBased and flying in the county

What I fly in Lancaster

All four run in Lancaster, and so does everything quoted per project.

Flying in Lancaster

Lancaster Airport Class D reaches part of town — some addresses need LAANC
Based in West Grove, on site in Lancaster County
FAA Part 107 certified, $1M commercial liability
Insured per site through SkyWatch before the flight
Weather reschedules are always free

Where a drone needs permission around here