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King County, Washington

King County Sheriff's Office

King County, Washington. 506 flights in the record from December 2025.

506

drone flights in the published record.

13

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

24%

took off between 10 pm and 6 am.

King County Sheriff's Office drones flew 506 times between 2 December 2025 and 24 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 13 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 13 of 13 flights in October 2026.

13 of the 13 flights with a published location in October 2026, sampled evenly. The record gives a point at the 100-block or intersection, not a path.
One flight, at its published block

24% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

— The record publishes no flight durations.

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 67
  2. 62
  3. 65
  4. 45
  5. 30
  6. 62
  7. 49
  8. 39
  9. 25
  10. 49
  11. 13
Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 506 flights.

  1. Not stated100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20264:35 pmNot stated—cd2ebe2e
Thu 1 Oct 20264:49 pmNot stated—89025056
Thu 1 Oct 20265:06 pmNot stated—9b434aae
Tue 6 Oct 20269:19 pmNot stated—d7f4455a
Mon 12 Oct 202611:28 amNot stated—ecb051ba
Wed 14 Oct 20263:19 pmNot stated—8f150095
Fri 16 Oct 20266:11 amNot stated—a7699b3a
Sat 17 Oct 20264:12 pmNot stated—f03f69d6
Sun 18 Oct 20261:59 amNot stated—303f2803
Sun 18 Oct 20262:02 amNot stated—89efb796
Sun 18 Oct 20269:22 pmNot stated—2e8900f3
Mon 19 Oct 202612:28 pmNot stated—54ce40cf
Sat 24 Oct 202610:37 pmNot stated—519f3938

All 13 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Record source: King County Sheriff's Office, via AirData public flight page (https://app.airdata.com/u/kcso), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; AirData terms ('solely for your own use'); republication accepted by the owner 2026-10-30 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/airdata/kcso.json, no network at build time.
  • What this record does not publish: no duration (duration tiles and the length filter are not shown); no flight path (the map shows the published block-level point per flight; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.

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