Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Drone pilots and operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,060 drone pilots and operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 15,330 professional contacts across them, including 3,016 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers drone pilots and operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for drone pilots and operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest drone pilots and operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aereo is an Operational Intelligence company that uses AI-powered workflows to transform drone survey data into operational intelligence for Mining, Construction, and Urban…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2017, GarudaUAV is a leading next-gen geospatial and engineering services company transforming aerial data into actionable business intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At UDS, we deliver cutting-edge aerial surveillance and security solutions designed to safeguard high-stakes environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since our inception in 2016, Aonic is a leading all-in-one drone solutions provider with a strong presence in South East Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DEA is a world leading technology-led provider of specialised aerial data acquisition services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nossos serviços- Liberação de agentes biológicos via drone - Imageamento aéreo - Geoprocessamento de dados - Pulverização agrícola” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Terra Drone Indonesia (TDID) provides premier Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services for industrial applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advanced Aerial provides modern solutions to traditional industrial level challenges ranging from surveying, mapping, blast monitoring, industrial inspections, security and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dronevolt, founded in 2011, is the market leader in the manufacturing and sales of service drones that represent many vertical markets, including Security, Surveillance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skyports Drone Services is the world’s leading drone airline.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lesoko Technologies delivers centimeter-level accuracy drone inspection, survey, and monitoring solutions for India's energy and infrastructure sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FalconViz is an innovative data collection, processing, and visualization company with a focus on drone-based services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “INSTADRONE | LEADER DE LA PRESTATION TECHNIQUE PAR DRONE L’innovation au service de l’Industrie 4.0.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FEDS Drone-powered Solutions is a pioneer in commercial drone operation across the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drone Nerds provides comprehensive drone solutions for enterprise, private, and recreational needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YelloSKYE creates value & enables business decisions by delivering advanced aerial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Scandron Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aerodyne India is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) solutions provider of drone-based enterprise solutions, and a pioneer in the use of AI as an enabling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Norways largest domestic helicopter company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elevating Possibilities in Drone Technology : Aero360 is at the forefront of the drone revolution, specializing in cutting-edge drone products and services that cater to a diverse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AEROMEDIA, en el 2022 pasa a formar parte del holding empresarial Grupo Ibérica.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission Statement: To be recognized worldwide as the number one aerial survey company of choice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sphere is a leading full-stack technology and services provider with offices across Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UAV Industries: Africa’s leader in drone training & operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skeye is the leading provider of geographic data acquisition, industrial inspections, unmanned traffic management (UTM), surveillance, and high-end aerial imagery using unmanned…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: drone pilots and operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names drone pilots and operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drone pilots and operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drone pilots and operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Drone pilots and operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among drone pilots and operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for drone pilots and operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “drone pilots and operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names drone pilots and operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among drone pilots and operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,016 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Drone pilots and operators by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Drone pilots and operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Drone pilots and operators based in the United States1,577
- Drone pilots and operators based in the United Kingdom628
- Drone pilots and operators based in France522
- Drone pilots and operators based in Spain228
- Drone pilots and operators based in Brazil221
- Drone pilots and operators based in Australia196
- Drone pilots and operators based in India193
- Drone pilots and operators based in Canada187
- Drone pilots and operators based in the Netherlands150
- Drone pilots and operators based in Italy135
- Drone pilots and operators based in Germany129
- Drone pilots and operators based in Belgium84
- Drone pilots and operators based in South Africa57
- Drone pilots and operators based in Switzerland56
- Drone pilots and operators based in Sweden37
- Drone pilots and operators based in Norway32
- Drone pilots and operators based in New Zealand29
- Drone pilots and operators based in Ireland28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names drone pilots and operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many drone pilots and operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,060 drone pilots and operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
AEREO, headquartered in Bangalore, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most drone pilots and operators?
The United States leads with 1,577 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (628) and France (522). Every drone pilots and operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most drone pilots and operators?
London leads with 56 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (35) and Madrid (30).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,016 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,060 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.