About Us
At AeroSpec Solutions, we deliver industrial drone inspection services built around one core objective: making hazardous inspections safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective for refineries, chemical plants, power facilities, and heavy industrial environments. Our primary focus is confined space inspections, where traditional methods require personnel to physically enter vessels, columns, tanks, and other dangerous environments. These inspections often expose workers to fall hazards, toxic atmospheres, heat stress, and significant operational risk. By utilizing advanced inspection drones, AeroSpec Solutions is able to reduce and in many cases eliminate the need for manned entry, allowing inspections to be completed faster while significantly improving safety outcomes. In addition to confined spaces, we perform inspections of flare stacks, towers, columns, vessels, tank farms, and other elevated or hard-to-reach assets. Drone-based inspections often replace the need for scaffolding, rope access, cranes, or extended shutdowns. This approach minimizes downtime, reduces costs, and allows facilities to maintain operations whenever possible.
What sets AeroSpec Solutions apart is our inspection-first mindset. We are not a drone company that learned inspections - we are inspection professionals who use drones as a tool. Our team has extensive hands-on experience working in industrial and refinery environments and understands the real-world challenges of asset integrity, regulatory compliance, and safe execution in live facilities
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Kaycie Gunn
Founder/Pilot
Kaycie is the founder of AeroSpec Solutions and a highly experienced drone pilot with nearly a decade of professional flight experience. She began her career flying drones for large-scale events, concerts, real estate, and commercial projects, driven by a deep passion for videography and visual storytelling.
In 2021, Kaycie became an industrial operator, gaining hands-on experience in chemical plants and heavy industrial environments. That field experience shaped her understanding of plant operations, safety systems, and confined-space challenges—and revealed a clear opportunity to apply drone technology in ways that improve safety, efficiency, and inspection outcomes.
She is an FAA Parts 107 licensed pilot, holds an Associate of Applied Science degree, and maintains multiple OSHA certifications. Known for her entrepreneurial mindset and strong leadership skills, Kaycie combines technical aviation expertise with real-world industrial knowledge to deliver practical, safety-first inspection solutions designed for high-risk environments.
Keegan Smith
Chief Of Inspections
Keegan is a CWI-certified Welding Inspector with over 15 years in the pipeline industry and nine years of inspection experience supporting natural gas and refined-product pipeline projects across the United States. His background spans a wide range of work scopes, including new-lay construction, integrity maintenance programs, and large-scale pipeline rehabilitation projects.
He has served as Chief of Inspection on multiple projects, providing leadership, oversight, and quality assurance while ensuring strict adherence to safety, regulatory, and code requirements. Keegan has performed third-party inspections for major energy companies, including Sunoco, Kinder Morgan, and Northwestern Energy, and is highly knowledgeable in pipeline safety, compliance, and inspection best practices.
He holds multiple OSHA and HAZWOPER certifications and is known for his strong safety-first mindset, technical expertise, and ability to lead inspection teams in complex, high-risk environments.
