The owner of the drone which flew over the Royal Thai Air Force base turned himself in to police on Thursday to acknowledge charges.
Jatupol Phodee went to Don Muang police station for a one-hour interrogation by police who later pressed two charges against him.
Deputy Don Muang police chief Pol Lt Col Rungsan Sornsing said authorities had charged him with flying unmanned aircraft without authorisation in violation of the Air Navigation Act and taking photos of areas off-limits to the public.
The air force lodged a complaint with the police station in August after seeing a drone near the Don Mueang base. The law that bans unmanned aircraft from flying within a nine-kilometre radius of the airport.
The drown owner said he bought the device from a website in June for 8,000 baht and tested it in August. He said he wanted to photograph the general aerial view but the pictures of the air force base were included while the drone took a curve before landing.
He is under investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand.