Single Engine Turboprop Undifferentiated
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 7900; Flight Crew Type 1000
Distraction; Confusion
Conflict NMAC
Environment - Non Weather Related
After completing an aerial application of a farm field approximately 10 miles southeast of LRJ airport; I was climbing out to the northwest to my typical ferrying altitude of 500 feet AGL to return to LRJ. One mile to the northwest of my target location while climbing; at 350 AGL I notice briefly a white object appear in my lower right corner of my windshield. I initially believed it to be a seagull as birds are rarely white this time of year; but when the object reappeared under the right wingtip of my aircraft I noticed it was in fact a white colored quad-copter type UAV. I estimate the UAV missed my right wingtip by approximately 50 ft horizontal and 20 ft below vertically. I had no time to take any evasive actions prior to noticing and passing the UAV. After discovering the object was in fact a UAV; I circled the field to observe the UAV was in a stationary hover approximately 350 AGL above a farm field. I then observed what I believed to be the operators of the UAV inside the cab of a pickup truck; located on a siding adjacent to the field facing to the west. I did not see any operators or observers located outside of the pickup. After 2 orbits of the field the UAV; began a descent to the road along the parameter of the field; and the truck drove to intercept it. I then continued my flight direct to LRJ with no further incidents.
Agriculture aircraft pilot reported a near miss with a UAV approximately 10 miles southeast of LRJ.