The embodiment of the invention provides an information transmission method and an unmanned aerial vehicle, relates to the technical field of communication and is used for solving a problem that manipulation and operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle base station cannot be effectively controlled. In the method, a flight controller sends an instruction message to an airborne base station; the airborne base station responses to the instruction message and sends a reply message to the flight controller. The embodiment of the invention is applicable to the process of unmanned aerial vehicle base station management.