Drone light shows in Irvine, California
Create a shared finale for your community, company, or family event with a custom drone show designed around your Irvine setting.
Plan your Irvine showPhoto: Azusa Tarn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2016 city photograph · resized / WebP.
Made for this moment
Great Park’s sports and concert spaces and Irvine’s international community offer distinct creative possibilities. We develop the visual story with you while reviewing current venue operations, neighboring uses, and the full ground and aviation plan.
Starbound Labs designs the show and brings the performance together. Our Spectra drones, in-house firmware, and Starbound OS software connect the creative work with the fleet and team on the ground.
Meet the team behind the lightsGive the city a reason to look up
Your occasion sets the direction. We shape the creative around it.
Bring people together for a city celebration, a seasonal gathering, or a festival finale with a story your community can share.
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Turn your logo, product launch, or company milestone into a reveal that reaches beyond the stage.
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Names, meaningful symbols, and a personal message in light. Make your celebration feel unmistakably yours.
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Build anticipation, celebrate your team, or create a shared moment for the people cheering together.
Explore the possibilitiesShow imagery illustrates creative possibilities, rather than performances at specific Irvine venues.
Rooted in Irvine
Local inspiration. A story made for your audience.
Irvine’s cultural festivals bring many traditions into a shared setting. For your event, we can develop a sequence with the organizers around approved symbols, colors, and music. The goal is an original story with a clear viewing direction and a final image your guests recognize.
For a technology, life-science, or company milestone, a drone sequence can turn an idea into an outdoor closing moment. We review the property and guests’ route outside before designing the reveal. A campus courtyard may be a viewing area without being suitable for launch.
Great Park Live is a temporary amphitheater with its own current operating arrangements. A potential finale would need operator coordination, stage timing, audience sightlines, and separate operational space. We do not treat the former FivePoint Amphitheatre as an active venue.
The Great Park Sports Complex can provide context for a club or tournament celebration. Different fields and crowd positions create different views. The proposed event, scheduling, protected team graphics, and a separate flight footprint all need individual assessment.
For a wedding or family gathering, the strongest formation may be a name, date, or personal symbol. We discuss trees, paths, nearby homes, and access at the exact property. The design is developed around a workable production plan rather than the appearance of an open lawn.
Great Park’s aviation history does not establish a drone operating permission. John Wayne Airport and the wider region’s aviation and military facilities remain relevant to site review. City, county, and private-property permissions also differ, including at regional parks.
Stadiums, stages & gathering places
Explore major event settings in Irvine and the wider metro.
Use these venues as starting points for your event plan. Each listing is a potential setting for individual review, with venue participation, permissions, launch and flight space, airspace, and show timing confirmed before a performance is agreed.
Temporary outdoor amphitheater
Irvine, California
Confirm present operating arrangements and surrounding works. Stage timing, audience sightlines, and separate operational space need individual assessment.
Official venue websiteSports & community event spaces
Irvine, California
Different fields create different site plans. Review the selected facility, sports calendar, guest circulation, and complete flight footprint.
Official venue websiteCounty regional park
Irvine, California
A county-managed setting. Review current bridge works and closures, paths, wildlife, vegetation, event permissions, and flight separation.
Official venue websiteThe airspace is part of the plan
The right starting point is your exact venue, launch location, show height, and date.
For each proposed show, we check current FAA maps, NOTAMs, temporary flight restrictions, and the complete flight area. Nearby airports and military facilities are part of that review, alongside other local aviation activity.
Orange County, California · outside the city where noted
Official facility informationInclude the airport in the review for relevant Orange County sites. Current airspace maps, flight volume, and the operation determine requirements.
Fullerton, California · north Orange County
Official facility informationReview the actual show location, altitude, current airspace, and aircraft activity. Proximity alone does not establish authorization.
Los Alamitos, California · military installation
Official facility informationReview installation restrictions, military aviation activity, and any required military permission separately from civilian airspace authorization and ground consent.
Where the flight area requires controlled-airspace authorization, we identify the applicable FAA process. LAANC may be available for eligible operations; airspace authorization for operations using an operational waiver follows the FAA’s designated process through FAADroneZone. An airport phone call is not a substitute for the required FAA authorization.
FAA authorization guidanceQualifying sporting events can trigger temporary flight restrictions affecting stadiums and surrounding areas. We review the applicable notices and show timing; venue permission or a routine airspace authorization alone does not remove these restrictions.
FAA stadium guidanceThe show plan also determines operational waiver requirements, including a multiple-aircraft waiver where one pilot operates multiple drones. New operational waiver applications use the FAA’s Aviation Safety Hub. Venue and landowner permission, crowd separation, and any local event permits are handled alongside the aviation review.
FAA waiver guidanceCheck the current venue, construction, event calendar, and operator before developing a production plan.
Official planning guidanceDistrict rules, park management plans, commercial activity, and land-use permissions must be checked for the specific park. A park event reservation does not establish flight permission.
Official planning guidanceIrvine & the surrounding area
Tell us about your venue, whether it’s in the city or the wider metro. We’ll look at the proposed launch space and how your audience will experience the show.
Nearby labels identify communities around Irvine; linked names have an available California guide. Each event site is assessed individually.
From the first conversation to the last light
We discuss your date, venue, audience, and creative direction, then review the setting and production requirements.
Our team builds the formations, movement, lighting, and choreography. You can explore the design before the performance.
We coordinate the show setup and on-site operation, with the site and conditions reviewed before flight.
A few things you might be wondering
No. Great Park Live is the current temporary outdoor amphitheater. Any proposed event needs review of its present operator arrangements, surrounding works, audience plan, and flight feasibility; a future permanent venue is not assumed to be available.
Start by sharing the address, event date, and any venue information you have. We review the proposed launch area, audience viewing position, access, surrounding airspace, and site conditions before confirming whether a show is feasible.
We can review event plans in Irvine and surrounding communities, including Anaheim, Long Beach, Tustin. Each property needs its own assessment of access, audience positions, airspace, and flight space.
Yes. We design formations, colors, animation, and choreography around your story. Tell us which brand elements, personal details, and music matter to the event so we can discuss the creative direction.
Pricing depends on the number of drones, creative scope, event location, travel, and production requirements. Share your plans and we’ll prepare a quote for your event.
Contact us as soon as you have a date and a possible venue. Early planning gives us time to review the location, develop the show, and coordinate the event requirements. Availability depends on your date and production needs.
Weather is part of the planning and show-day review. We discuss operating conditions and contingency arrangements with you before the event; the final decision to fly depends on conditions on the day.
Your place. Your people. Your story.
Tell us about your event, your date, and the moment you want to create.
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