Aerial intelligence and commercial drone services

Fire Hawk Drones Services

Fire Hawk Drones provides commercial drone pilot services across the Canberra region, Southern Tablelands, and South Coast, specialising in inspection, survey, and mapping. 


Jobs further afield can also be arranged. 

Inspection

Infrastructure, asset, and facility inspection using drone-mounted visual and thermal sensors. Covers turbine blades, solar arrays, transmission lines, buildings, and perimeters, without the cost or risk of rope access or scaffolding.

Survey

Land, site, and area survey with centimetre-level RTK accuracy. Covers construction progress monitoring, site boundaries, stockpile volumes, and terrain modelling for planning and compliance.

Mapping

Aerial mapping, orthomosaics, digital surface models, and 3D reconstruction. Outputs integrate directly into GIS and asset management workflows, suited to large sites and rehabilitation projects.

About Fire Hawk Drones

Sectors We Serve

 We work directly with organisations in energy, utilities, mining, critical infrastructure, construction, agriculture, environment, and emergency services. These are sectors where inspection, survey, and mapping decisions carry real operational and safety consequences.


For emergency services clients, this extends to time-critical applications such as search and rescue support, incident mapping, and rapid situational awareness during an active response.

Who's Flying

Fire Hawk Drones is led by David Hopkins, a licensed remote pilot with a background in intelligence and aerial intelligence gathering. Flights are planned and flown with the same decision-focused approach used across Fire Hawk Services, so every deliverable is built directly around your question and ready to use in your decision-making process.


Qualifications

  • Remote Pilot Licence (RePL), sub-25kg multi-rotor rating
  • Aviation Radio Operator Certificate (AROC)


Experience

  • 20+ years as a RAAF Intelligence Officer
  • Deployed UAS operations with Special Forces, Afghanistan
  • Aerial intelligence gathering operations, imagery analysis, and intelligence architecture
  • Operational drone pilot, NSW Rural Fire Service, including search and rescue and other time-critical emergency response work
  • Deployed through Fire Hawk Services flying large drones for wildfire mapping in the United States, operating beyond visual line of sight from a mobile operations centre

Contact Us

Drop us a line!

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Copyright © 2026 Fire Hawk Drones - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by

This website uses cookies.

We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.

Accept