On July 4th, 2026, we flew a 300-drone show for the City of Mesa. It is the largest show on our record.
Why the number matters
300 drones is the scale that fits the widest range of events, which is why we lead with it rather than with something bigger. For larger events and highly custom productions, shows run at 500, 750, 1,000, and 1,500 drones, each quoted per show. Our own crew designs, programs, and flies every one of them.
300 is also where a scannable QR code becomes possible, and minimal 3D formations open up at 200. Aerial screen projection, where the formation becomes a screen in the sky, takes 500+. Below that you can still build a genuinely good show (clean logos, text, a strong signature moment), but depth and interactivity are what scale buys.
The second time Mesa has booked us
The more useful fact about this show is not its size. It is that Mesa had already worked with us once, on Merry Main Street in November: a community holiday celebration whose show was conceived and designed by ASU students through the Drone Show Design Program, working alongside our team.
Those are about as far apart as two municipal shows can be. One is a civic spectacle at 300-drone scale on the busiest night of the summer. The other handed the creative to students for a neighbourhood holiday event. A city asking us back for the second kind after the first is the signal we would point any municipal buyer to, ahead of any drone count.
Why July 4th suits the format
Early July is the driest, highest-risk part of the year across the Southwest, which is exactly when a fireworks display is hardest to justify and easiest to lose to conditions. A drone show has nothing to burn: no open flame, no pyrotechnic charge, no falling debris. It also produces a fraction of the noise, which matters at a park with houses on the other side of the street.
And it can carry the imagery the night calls for: a flag held at altitude, a burst sequence without fire, an eagle, "USA" spelled out and legible from the ground.
If you are planning next year
There is no fixed booking minimum: each date is assessed for feasibility. July 4th is a peak date, though, so it prices higher than an ordinary summer night and it fills earlier than most. Start that conversation sooner. There is no deadline to beat, but there is less to choose from the later you ask.