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Aerial photo services, Movie Production, Helicopter filming, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Big Sur

Specialized Aviation offers you the best helicopter aerial photo and video production...

Photo | Video Services Include:

  • Real estate, property pictures and video

  • Aerial camera platform

  • Location scouting

  • Still photography

  • Full feature aerial work

  • FAA-approved movie manual

  • Aerial UAS and drone services



Aerial Photography

Choose your own photographer or use ours- The choice is yours!

Aerial photo Prices:

R22 Helicopter - Call
R44 Raven Cadet Helicopter-$655 per hour
R44 Raven II Helicopter-$760

Aerial Photographer - $500 per flight hour (price includes shooting, editing, transfer to media or web and all rights to the images)
Administration time - $95 per hour (each project has specific administrative tasks that might be required)
Certificates of Insurance - $150 ea.
Camera Rig Installation - $650
After Hours Fee - $500
Off Shore Fee - $150 per hour

Ceniflex, Spacecam, Gyro Stabilized Equipment is at additional costs, call for a quote.
* Minimum of 3 hours per day rental of the helicopter when rigged.


Pacific Coast Gimbals -Matt Beardsley, demos the Gyro stabilized system available from our San Francisco or Monterey locations.

Aerial Camera System provided and operated by - Pacific Coast Gimbals - Call for quote.


Aerial Movie Production

Our staff has decades of movie production experience and has worked extensively in the Monterey Bay Area.

Some of our Movie production clients include:

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey
Carmel-by-the-Sea - movie
Solar Impulse
Golf additions - Joann Dost
GoPro
Breitling Jet Team
Discovery channel "Rise of the Jelly Fish"
Chasing Mavericks - movie