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📷 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY · VERSAILLES (78) · €300–900 PER HALF-DAY

Drone aerial photography in Versailles

Free quote — aerial photography in Versailles

Around Versailles, open country meets the urban fabric: aerial photography documents a single building or a whole district alike, with Cathédrale Saint-Louis setting the scale. The quote reflects the realities on the ground in Versailles: site access, the department's airspace context (78) and the expected deliverable — reply within one working day.

Outside the royal estate the market exists: private mansions and co-owned buildings in the Notre-Dame and Saint-Louis quarters needing roof inspections, headquarters and administrations, equestrian events and trade shows at the exhibition park, and neighbouring residential towns for upmarket real estate. Our team knows precisely where the boundary runs — to the metre. Versailles is a regulatory textbook case: the palace and its estate sit under a permanent no-fly zone — no overflight without an exceptional top-level waiver —, air base 107 at Villacoublay (government helicopters) borders the town to the north-east, and the Saint-Cyr-l'École airfield to the west completes a saturated airspace, all within the constrained Paris conurbation zone.

What the service covers in Versailles

Sites and landmarks in Versailles

On the mission-planning map, these places in Versailles shape trajectories and framing:

Rates

€300–900 per half-day — the range observed on the 2026 French market, including regulatory preparation, flight and delivery. Every mission in Versailles is priced on its own facts: area to cover, flight height, expected deliverable and local formalities.

Flying in Versailles: the local framework

For a photo shoot in Versailles, the key constraint is the standing overflight ban (Zone interdite permanente du château et du domaine de Versailles): prior authorisation is essential and must be requested several weeks before the planned shoot date.

Professional aerial photography is mostly flown in the open category (A1 to A3, 120 m maximum) with an operator registered on AlphaTango; in town or near the public it moves to the specific category with prior declaration. Full regulations and rates: aerial photography across France →

Information checked against the regulations in force as of August 2026 (EU regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947, applicable French decrees).

Frequently asked questions

Aerial photography in Versailles: what budget should you plan?

Allow €300–900 per half-day — the 2026 French market range, including regulatory preparation, flight and delivery. Build the overflight-authorisation lead time for Versailles into your schedule: several weeks depending on the case.

What subjects work from the air in Versailles?

The landmarks of Versailles — Château de Versailles et ses jardins (survol interdit), Cathédrale Saint-Louis — take on another dimension seen from 100 m, as do changing neighbourhoods and the surrounding Île-de-France landscape. The pilot checks site by site what local rules allow.

Can drone photos be taken in a city?

Yes, under conditions: in built-up areas a commercial flight generally requires a specific-category scenario with prior declaration to the préfecture (10 working days since 1 January 2026). We handle all the paperwork for you.

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