Sydney, NSW Australia

Precision
in the air.
Intelligence
on the ground.

Bankable Co delivers advanced RPAS operations for defence, government, and industry — and Atlassian platform consulting that turns your service & customer management into a competitive asset.

2,500+
Logged Flights
1000+
Flight Hours
10yr+
RPAS Experience
4
RePL Categories
20yr+
Media, Tech and Defence Corporations

Drone Operations

Not a hobby operation — a professional service with the credentials and track record of advanced RPAS operations to match. Built for defence, media, and research. Tested in highly regulated, high-consequence environments.

01

Multi-Platform Operations

FPV, multi-rotor, fixed-wing, and powered lift platforms. Over 300 makes and models operated in field and testing environments.

02

BVLOS & EVLOS Operations

Certified BVLOS (OCTA) and EVLOS Class 1 & 2 operations. Beyond the standard visual envelope — legally compliant and operationally proven.

03

Data Acquisition & Test & Evaluation

Structured data capture, sensor integration, and test & evaluation for engineering teams. Experience leading T&E programs for a defence-adjacent counter-UAS organisation.

04

Live Demonstrations

Stakeholder demonstration events — coordinated, safe, and briefed. Delivered for enterprise, government, and defence audiences requiring real-world capability proof.

05

Restricted Airspace Operations

Controlled aerodromes, no-fly zones, restricted airspace, and emergency operations. Coordinated directly with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and government agencies.

06

Fleet & Compliance Management

ReOC/RePL management, flight planning, SORA/AusSORA risk assessments, and operations manual development for organisations building or scaling an RPAS program.

Licences & Certifications
Aviation Reference & Licence Number & CASA ARN 1034104
RPA Operator's CertificateCASA ReOC 9701
RePL — Multi-rotor ≤25kg
RePL — Powered Lift ≤25kg
RePL — DJI Agras T50 ≤150kg
RePL — Aeroplane ≤7kg
BVLOS Certified (OCTA)
AROC — Aeronautical Radio
AAUS & ACUA Member

Defence & Government

Counter-UAS programs, T&E operations, capability demonstrations, and compliance-heavy environments requiring verified operator credentials.

Media & Broadcast

Live broadcast aerial operations in high-profile, deadline-driven productions. Extensive experience at major national events and news productions.

Research Organisations

Scientific data collection, sensor payload integration, and structured test programmes requiring rigorous flight records and compliance documentation.

Need a capability demonstration?

Enquire about our services for defence, government, and enterprise stakeholders.

Talk to us about drone services

Business Consulting

Atlassian Jira Service Management implementation and optimisation done by someone who's actually built and used the systems in operational settings - not a coder or a reseller reading the documentation.

If your team is managing services desks, physical assets, or customer workflows and your tools aren't pulling their weight, that's the problem we solve. Clean configuration, real automation, and processes that stick.

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Jira SM

Jira Service Management — Implementation & Optimisation

Greenfield deployments or improvement of existing processes. Request types, queues, SLA schemes, portal configuration, and agent workflows built to how your team actually operates.

Jira SM

Digital & Physical Asset Management

Jira Assets configuration for hardware, software licences, facilities, and field equipment. Comprehensive asset registers with linked service requests and change records.

Automation

Workflow Automation

Jira automation rules that eliminate manual handoffs and reduce noise. Notifications, escalations, ticket routing, SLA breach alerts — built and tested, not just pointed at the docs.

Jira SM

Customer Management Workflows

Service portal design and customer-facing workflows for organisations managing external stakeholders or multi-tenancy support environments.

Reporting

Reporting & Dashboards

Jira dashboards or Power BI/Looker Studio reports. Turn ticket data into operational intelligence to grow your business.

How We Work

01

Discovery

Map your current workflows, pain points, team structure, and what you actually need Jira to do — not what the vendor says it should do.

02

Design

Produce a configuration spec and schema before touching the environment. No surprises in production.

03

Build

Iterative implementation with your team involved — not delivered as an over-engineered black box after weeks of silence.

04

Handover & Short-term Support

Documentation, admin training, and a system your team can maintain. The outcome is your independence, not your dependency.

One operator. Two disciplines. Built on doing.

Bankable Co is the practice of Adrian Banks — a Sydney-based RPAS specialist and operations professional with over a decade of experience across broadcast aviation, defence-adjacent drone programs, and enterprise service management.

The dual-service model isn't a branding exercise. The same systems-thinking that goes into a complex RPAS operation — risk assessment, stakeholder coordination, procedural rigour — applies directly to implementing a service management platform that doesn't fall over six months post-launch.

Drone-side: Adrian spent two years as Chief Remote Pilot and T&E Team Lead at DroneShield, operating complex multi-platform programs for counter-UAS stakeholders. Before that, he built and managed Nine Entertainment's national drone operations — 120+ licensed pilots, a large fleet under ReOC, and direct CASA liaison responsibility.

Consulting-side: Over a decade of experience in the corporate world has shaped a hands-on approach to service management that goes well beyond the theoretical. From building Jira Service Management deployments from scratch to designing no-code applications, automation workflows, and real-time reporting infrastructure — the consulting practice is a direct extension of work already delivered at scale.

PRINCE2 Project Management AXELOS Certified
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) University of Sydney
Graduate Certificate — Broadcast Journalism University of Technology Sydney
AAUS & ACUA Professional Member Since 2023

Let's talk about your project.

Whether you need a drone operator with genuine compliance depth or a Jira implementation that actually holds up — the conversation starts here.

Location
Sydney, NSW Australia
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Response SLA
1 business day (AEST/AEDT)

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