Get a Drone Franchise
AD’s unique Virtual Drone Franchise offering provides a scale-as-you-go model for providing expert-level drone services across a range of industries.
Redefining franchises for the drone entrepreneur
Franchises have long been out of reach for most aspiring entrepreneurs—both in the U.S. and globally—due to steep startup costs that often soar from tens of thousands to well over a million dollars. Beyond the financial barrier, traditional franchises typically impose rigid structures that limit individual autonomy and creativity.
In a bold move to disrupt this model, AD introduces the Virtual Drone Franchise (VDF): a powerful, low-barrier alternative that reimagines business ownership. With the VDF, AD is making entrepreneurial success in the booming drone economy more affordable, flexible, and accessible than ever before.
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Low cost. No limits. Full control.
Virtual Drone Franchises (VDFs) offer a flexible, accessible path to small business ownership or career change—blending remote work, adventure, and the stability of self-employment. With no licensing fees, royalties, or territorial limits, VDFs eliminate the high startup costs and rigid rules of traditional franchises.
Owners have full control over branding and operations, allowing for true entrepreneurial freedom. Even better, no prior experience with drones or business ownership is required. The program is designed to equip motivated individuals with the skills, tools, and support needed to become professional drone service providers (DSPs), ready to offer commercial drone services to the public—fully prepared within 6 to 10 months.
Modeled after open-access platforms like Uber, VDFs are built to expand opportunity and open the door for more individuals to succeed in the fast-growing drone economy.
Total Exterior Care (TEC) Franchise
Designed for a wide range of exterior maintenance tasks, drone-based services like power-washing, painting, and graffiti removal offer a highly versatile, a-la-carte solution for countless applications. Whether it’s cleaning windows, building facades, rooftops, or solar panels—or tackling large-scale jobs like wind turbines, cruise ships, water towers, or stadiums—drones eliminate the need for costly scaffolding and lifts. Ideal for hard-to-reach or hazardous areas, these drones can even paint bridges, underpasses, factory structures (inside and out), church steeples, and other complex surfaces. From revitalizing rooftops to removing unsightly graffiti in public spaces, drone solutions are redefining how exterior care is delivered—faster, safer, and more efficiently.
Inspections, Security and Surveillance (ISS) Franchise
Built for industrial, commercial, and residential use, this drone inspection solution covers a comprehensive range of surface and sub-surface applications. Easily inspect power lines, electrical pylons and splices, bridges, railroads, pipelines, construction sites, agricultural fields, rooftops, storage tanks, and more—all with enhanced speed, safety, and precision. Beyond surface-level assessments, these drones can also support advanced subsurface inspections, including detection of land mines, tunnels, bunkers, underground utilities (such as water, gas, and power), landfills, and potential sinkholes. Whether above or below ground, this technology delivers a smarter, safer way to assess critical infrastructure.
Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Franchise
Become one of the first in the country to own a drone repair franchise—offering expert maintenance and repair services for virtually all major drone brands in use today. Much like on-demand roadside assistance, this specialized skillset is rare and rapidly rising in demand across industries. Whether serving individual operators or large commercial fleets, this franchise opportunity positions you at the forefront of a growing market. Scale your impact by launching multiple MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) units and establish a dominant presence across an entire city or region—building not just a business, but a long-term legacy.
K-9 Emergency Rapid Response Franchise
Revolutionizing disaster response. AD demonstrates its civic commitment through the groundbreaking K-9 Virtual Drone Fleets (VDFs), which are reshaping how communities respond to natural disasters. Acting as mobile command centers, these VDFs provide a faster, safer, and more efficient alternative to conventional methods—accelerating rescue efforts, assessing damage, and supporting strategic recovery planning for local emergency teams.
VDFs: Flexible contracts, complete drone ecosystem
Operating beyond traditional business models, Virtual Drone Fleets (VDFs) are available for both immediate deployment and long-term contracts, giving states, cities, and municipalities the ability to access advanced drone capabilities without the financial and logistical burden of owning and managing the infrastructure themselves.
A key advantage of VDFs is their seamless integration into Aquiline Drones’ full-service ecosystem, which includes everything from cutting-edge equipment and technology to training, insurance, maintenance, and mission planning. This all-inclusive approach delivers unmatched customer support and positions AD as a leader in scalable, turnkey drone solutions.
Build your VDF around a Mobile Command Center
AD offers a mobile command center that is customized for search and rescue (SAR) operations and specialized industrial inspections. The mobile command center serves as both a transport vehicle for drones and a workspace for on-field operations, and can be considered a vital part of a Virtual Drone Franchise.
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Full Spectrum Drone Insurance
AD offers full spectrum drone insurance policies for equipment, operations, operators, and third-parties. The policies are set up to scale-as-you-go, catering to all DSP and in-house business needs.