From the Harbour and the Opera House to Bondi, the Northern Beaches and the Blue Mountains, Sydney is one of the most filmed — and most tightly controlled — airspaces in Australia. Specialist Helicopters is based here, at Bankstown, and flies the camera over the city for features, commercials, drama and live broadcast. We’re the unit that secured the first-ever approval for a helicopter stunt over and onto the Sydney Opera House.
Cleared where
others were refused
Being based at Bankstown means no ferry costs, no fly-in delays and a team that knows Sydney’s airspace, the harbour exclusion zones and the approval pathways intimately. David Adamson flies the camera himself — 23,000+ hours, nil accidents — while our aerial producer handles the CASA permits, ATC liaison and over-populous-area approvals Sydney work demands, so your production can focus on the shot.
Yes. We hold the CASA approvals for low-level and over-populous-area filming, and we secured the first-ever approval for a helicopter stunt over and onto the Sydney Opera House. Harbour, Bridge and foreshore work is core to what we do.
Our Sydney base is Bankstown Airport, so we operate across the metro area, coast and Blue Mountains without fly-in ferry costs.
Yes, with the appropriate CASA approvals and air-traffic coordination, which we arrange as part of the job, including over-populous-area and over-crowd permissions where the shot requires them.
Tell us the shot, the schedule and the location — we'll build the aerial unit, stunt and coordination plan around it.