The invention relates to a single-spindle cradle head device for an aerial photography unmanned plane, which belongs to the technology of a single-spindle course deviation-rectifying mechanical cradle head which can be automatically controlled. The single-spindle cradle head has the structure that a barrel is installed on a motherboard, a gearwheel is fixed in the mounting groove of the barrel, and a box is fixed on the barrel; a pinion is connected to a coupling shaft after being meshed with the gearwheel, and a servo is installed on the shore and the coupling shaft of a bedplate. The single-spindle cradle head device ensures that the unmanned plane carries out real-time course deviation rectification and mechanical shock adsorption for cameras in the operation process, picture images are clear, and picture forming rate is high. Meanwhile, the invention has scientific and reasonable structural design, low cost, low noise and energy saving, is safe, efficient, small, portable, efficient and mobile, can be widely applied for monitoring and detecting in various fields of public security, national defense industry, the digital earth and the like, has wide market demands and is easy to popularize and apply.