Drone light shows in Lubbock, Texas
Red Raider energy, a West Texas horizon, and music that belongs here. Build a Lubbock celebration around your own reason to look up.
Plan your Lubbock showPhoto: Noah Puente · CC0 1.0 · 2024 local photograph · cropped / WebP.
Made for this moment
Texas Tech traditions and Lubbock’s live-music culture offer different ways to begin a show. We can build from your chosen colors, symbols, or message into a custom finale, with the event setting, audience view, and weather plan developed alongside the choreography.
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 Lubbock venues.
Rooted in Lubbock
Local inspiration. A story made for your audience.
Scarlet and black can introduce an alumni celebration before the sequence becomes specific to your class, group, or occasion. Texas Tech marks require appropriate approval for use, and a campus proposal needs university coordination alongside the aviation review.
Buddy Holly’s legacy and the Depot Entertainment District are part of Lubbock’s musical identity. For a music-led event, we can build formations around a chosen track and a clear final image, discussing music use and playback with your production team.
The Moonlight Musicals Amphitheatre brings a stage and open-air audience into the Mackenzie Park setting. A proposed aerial finale needs to account for stage structures, tree lines, guest circulation, and the actual angle from which viewers would see the formations.
For an industry gathering, research milestone, or company anniversary, the show can move from a simple idea into a product outline or brand. We review the event’s occupied areas and any separate launch property before committing the concept to a performance plan.
A wedding in Lubbock or a family gathering toward Wolfforth might close with initials, a date, or a symbol your guests recognize. Confirm property boundaries, equipment access, neighboring activity, and a defined viewing area before treating a field as usable launch land.
A wide view can help a formation read, but site conditions and aviation still govern feasibility. We check Lubbock’s airports, current notices, wind and contingency arrangements, and any research activity near the former Reese base as part of the location review.
Stadiums, stages & gathering places
Explore major event settings in Lubbock 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.
University stadium
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech’s football setting requires university coordination, qualifying stadium-restriction checks, and a defined launch footprint. Review rooflines, occupied seating, and concurrent campus activity.
Official venue websiteOutdoor musical theatre
Lubbock, Texas
An outdoor performance setting by Mackenzie Park. Stage cues, trees, audience orientation, operator permission, and a separate launch area determine whether an aerial component could fit.
Official venue websiteFair, rodeo & concert grounds
Lubbock, Texas
Review the exact event layout with the fairgrounds operator. Rides, livestock, temporary structures, occupied parking, and audience separation all influence the available flight footprint.
Official venue websitePublic park & recreation landscape
Lubbock, Texas
A City park with recreation uses including disc golf. Any event proposal needs a precise location, City permission, and review of public activity, tree cover, access, and separate flight space.
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.
Check current controlled airspace, facility maps, aircraft activity, and notices for the complete proposed flight volume. A city address alone does not determine the applicable authorization process.
General-aviation activity matters for southern venues as well as the international airport. Review current FAA information and local traffic at the actual performance coordinates.
West of Lubbock · former Reese Air Force Base
Official facility informationFormer military property now managed by the redevelopment authority includes private airfield access and research uses. Confirm current operator restrictions and flight activity rather than treating it as an active Air Force base or an available launch site.
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 guidanceThe operator retired the Reese Technology Center name in 2026 in favor of Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority. Confirm the current site contact, access, and security requirements for any proposal in that area.
Official planning guidanceReview the City’s current park-use and permit rules directly with Parks and Recreation. A model-aircraft permit, venue booking, FAA authorization, and permission for a professional event are different parts of the review.
Official planning guidanceLubbock & 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 South Plains communities are separate event locations. Open-looking land still needs a review of aircraft activity, wind exposure, access, and permission.
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
Begin with the full venue address and a possible launch parcel. We assess wind exposure, surface conditions, trees and structures, public access, nearby aircraft activity, and the audience’s view. A broad horizon alone does not establish a suitable or authorized flight area.
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 welcome enquiries for Lubbock and the surrounding communities. Nearby South Plains communities are separate event locations. Open-looking land still needs a review of aircraft activity, wind exposure, access, and permission. Share the full venue address and event date so we can assess the actual site.
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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