Drone Space Training Academy

Drone Space is a drone training school and services company at Prosperity House on Westlands Road, Nairobi, and one of the unmanned aircraft training organisations approved by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. Its main course is the Remote Pilot Licence: about a week of theory, the KCAA examination and a week of practical flying, with new intakes most weeks. Licence holders can go on to the instructor rating, radio telephony, and specialist courses in drone mapping and survey, thermography, agricultural spraying and beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations. The company also offers drone light shows, aerial filming, agriculture, mapping, inspection and search and rescue work, sells drones and helps operators apply for their operating certificates. It held its first graduation, of more than 40 drone pilots, in 2021.