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Tennessee, Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Transportation

Tennessee, Tennessee. 33 flights in the record from September 2024.

33

drone flights in the published record.

5

flights in December 2024, the latest full month.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Tennessee Department of Transportation drones flew 33 times between 20 September 2024 and 11 December 2024, by the agency's own published record. 5 of those flights were in December 2024.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 5 of 5 flights in December 2024.

5 of the 5 drawable flights in December 2024, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

9 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 28 minutes.

0% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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. 4
  2. 10
  3. 14
  4. 5
Sep 24Oct 24Nov 24Dec 24

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 33 flights.

  1. Other88%
  2. Not stated12%

Hour of day

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

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Flight list, December 2024

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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Dec 20248:01 amOther28 min17101aca
Wed 4 Dec 20249:45 amOther16 min3caa8508
Wed 4 Dec 202410:03 amOther12 minadc46482
Wed 11 Dec 20242:09 pmOther16 mina6c2e395
Wed 11 Dec 20242:27 pmOther29 min03ff78ec

All 5 listable flights in December 2024. 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.
  • Published by the feed named: Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT). The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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