About The Drone Show Cost Record
What a drone light show actually costs is public record — council minutes, procurement documents, news coverage of the vote. It has just never been assembled in one place, cited, and made searchable.
Why this exists
"What does a drone show cost?" is one of the highest-volume questions a producer, venue, or municipality asks before ever picking up the phone — and until now it has been answered nowhere with primary sources. This record assembles publicly disclosed contract amounts, one row per show, each traceable to the document or article that reported it.
Rules of the road
- Public sources only. Every row carries a source link — council minutes, a procurement record, or news reporting quoting the figure directly. Nothing is estimated or reconstructed.
- Contract vs. estimate, always labeled. A figure is marked as a contract amount, a budget line item, or a reported estimate — never blended silently.
- No ranking, no comparison between vendors. Where an operator is named in the public record, it's included as a fact, not a basis for comparison. This record states facts with sources; the reader does the comparing.
- Outdoor shows only. This record does not cover indoor operated aerial effects, which are priced differently — see Sitara Skies' operated aerial effects page.
Status & refresh
Reviewed quarterly: links re-verified, new rows added, the last-updated stamp bumped. See the methodology page for sourcing rules and current counts. Found a dead link, a correction, or a show that belongs here? Let us know.
License
Dataset and documentation released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: “The Drone Show Cost Record.” The underlying public records are public domain; the compilation and documentation are what this license covers.
Who publishes this
The Drone Show Cost Record is published by Sitara Skies, an aerial show design studio and a venture of Sitara Systems.