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Christian County, Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Christian County, Illinois. 490 flights in the record from February 2026.

490

drone flights in the published record.

89

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Where this record comes from

Skydio? Skydio is a US drone maker. Agencies flying its drones as first responders can publish a public flight log on a Skydio-hosted transparency dashboard, which lists each flight with its takeoff, landing, path and stated purpose.

This record publishes flight id, takeoff and landing to the second, full path, stated purpose; every participating agency. Open University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign's own published record.

University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign drones flew 490 times between 4 February 2026 and 2 November 2026, by the agency's own published record. 89 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 89 of 89 flights in October 2026.

89 of the 89 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is the whole flight; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area instead.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

71 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 20 minutes.

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

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

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

  1. Feb 2026: 3 flights. 3
  2. Mar 2026: 5 flights. 5
  3. Apr 2026: 3 flights. 3
  4. May 2026: 35 flights. 35
  5. Jun 2026: 49 flights. 49
  6. Jul 2026: 75 flights. 75
  7. Aug 2026: 88 flights. 88
  8. Sep 2026: 137 flights. 137
  9. Oct 2026: 89 flights. 89
  10. Nov 2026: 6 flights. 6
Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26Nov 26

The hatched bar is the current month, 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 490 flights.

  1. Training and testing63%
  2. Call for service20%
  3. Events11%
  4. Other3%
  5. Search2%
  6. Not stated0%

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 (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20267:15 amTraining and testing6 mindb3bf2d4
Thu 1 Oct 20261:14 pmCall for service8 min0e444976
Fri 2 Oct 20267:12 amTraining and testing3 min73025a06
Fri 2 Oct 20267:27 amCall for service9 min772d4aaa
Fri 2 Oct 20268:38 amCall for service9 min8bdd2ef0
Sat 3 Oct 20267:22 amTraining and testing7 minf65f37c9
Sat 3 Oct 202612:04 pmEvents22 min7b5dbd7f
Sat 3 Oct 202612:37 pmEvents24 min44c73e94
Sat 3 Oct 20261:05 pmEvents23 min953b6824
Sat 3 Oct 20261:35 pmEvents25 mine84306aa
Sat 3 Oct 20262:17 pmEvents22 minfae4df9b
Sat 3 Oct 20262:42 pmEvents13 min7a5ed4f9
Sat 3 Oct 20263:02 pmEvents5 minede360e5
Sat 3 Oct 20264:05 pmEvents6 mina8851725
Sat 3 Oct 20266:08 pmEvents20 min36694c14
Sat 3 Oct 20266:32 pmEvents23 min16fbec05
Sat 3 Oct 20266:56 pmEvents22 min03b15b55
Sat 3 Oct 20267:20 pmEvents17 minb845c1a2
Mon 5 Oct 20267:17 amTraining and testing2 minf0f0755b
Mon 5 Oct 20268:47 amCall for service7 min24a5dbfe
Mon 5 Oct 202611:00 amTraining and testing26 s6ec8b89c
Mon 5 Oct 202611:01 amTraining and testing4 mined787595
Tue 6 Oct 20268:54 amTraining and testing3 min3ea615b2
Tue 6 Oct 20269:45 amTraining and testing9 min47ad8c80
Tue 6 Oct 202610:21 amCall for service7 minafbd0684
Tue 6 Oct 20262:32 pmTraining and testing3 min83559181
Wed 7 Oct 20267:32 amTraining and testing4 min554519d0
Thu 8 Oct 20268:28 amTraining and testing2 min18f60935
Fri 9 Oct 20268:22 amTraining and testing3 min5d281b15
Sat 10 Oct 20267:04 amTraining and testing3 min2ef4a250
Sat 10 Oct 20261:49 pmCall for service6 min7bf62b75
Mon 12 Oct 20267:22 amTraining and testing3 minae80ae08
Tue 13 Oct 20262:42 amCall for service11 mine4c4cf4f
Tue 13 Oct 20267:34 amTraining and testing3 mine2d67645
Wed 14 Oct 20267:26 amTraining and testing3 min0ac9eac6
Wed 14 Oct 202611:41 amTraining and testing6 min155b9869
Wed 14 Oct 20262:41 pmCall for service3 min034c3043
Wed 14 Oct 202610:33 pmCall for service16 min885d7a27
Wed 14 Oct 202610:48 pmCall for service13 minf9b1c209
Thu 15 Oct 202612:56 amCall for service20 min87b6aacb
Thu 15 Oct 20261:18 amCall for service21 min5d96ac71
Thu 15 Oct 20267:14 amTraining and testing3 mincc1952cf
Thu 15 Oct 202610:18 amTraining and testing2 mine21adcd3
Thu 15 Oct 202611:04 amTraining and testing42 sdc219514
Thu 15 Oct 202611:17 amTraining and testing2 minc65afb81
Thu 15 Oct 202611:21 amTraining and testing1 min 34 s5465e0c1
Fri 16 Oct 20268:33 amCall for service2 minca291a20
Fri 16 Oct 202610:36 amTraining and testing2 min6f476f3d
Fri 16 Oct 202612:31 pmTraining and testing6 mind1b4eb04
Sat 17 Oct 202611:24 amTraining and testing3 mineb89e1ed
Sat 17 Oct 202612:50 pmTraining and testing4 minc4e9078f
Mon 19 Oct 20267:39 amTraining and testing4 min3fe9ac5b
Mon 19 Oct 20267:58 amCall for service7 min0f196adb
Tue 20 Oct 20268:39 amTraining and testing3 min7ca1ff49
Tue 20 Oct 20263:25 pmCall for service5 min326d8fbb
Wed 21 Oct 20268:01 amTraining and testing5 min83da9457
Thu 22 Oct 20267:44 amTraining and testing2 minad3d8708
Thu 22 Oct 20266:46 pmCall for service15 min38e344e4
Thu 22 Oct 20268:55 pmCall for service17 min8021c413
Fri 23 Oct 20264:42 amOther6 min51f3b861
Fri 23 Oct 20267:22 amTraining and testing5 minbce24fd0
Sat 24 Oct 20268:24 amTraining and testing4 min975e15a3
Sat 24 Oct 202610:46 amEvents22 min53453c9b
Sat 24 Oct 202611:14 amEvents23 minf8f5d187
Sat 24 Oct 202611:39 amEvents23 minf09b05ef
Sat 24 Oct 202612:12 pmEvents21 minf78bdd72
Sat 24 Oct 20261:11 pmEvents25 mineafddc24
Sat 24 Oct 20263:39 pmEvents3 mine69095ed
Sat 24 Oct 20264:50 pmEvents20 min29e9d12a
Sat 24 Oct 20265:11 pmEvents22 min32e20835
Sat 24 Oct 20265:35 pmEvents23 mind8d6eca5
Sat 24 Oct 20265:59 pmEvents24 min27ff2945
Sun 25 Oct 20268:49 pmTraining and testing3 min76e05cba
Mon 26 Oct 20267:58 amTraining and testing3 min99f690ed
Tue 27 Oct 20268:16 amTraining and testing3 minf33d9765
Tue 27 Oct 20261:45 pmCall for service12 min0daac753
Wed 28 Oct 20267:21 amTraining and testing3 min88e6cde1
Wed 28 Oct 202611:15 amCall for service12 minaa9759dc
Wed 28 Oct 20261:10 pmCall for service9 min8c98f82b
Wed 28 Oct 20262:56 pmOther18 min1a8c37da
Thu 29 Oct 20267:17 amTraining and testing7 minbe8b9ad8
Thu 29 Oct 20262:32 pmOther16 mine06d2b36
Fri 30 Oct 20267:40 amTraining and testing3 min79dd5f88
Fri 30 Oct 202610:21 amCall for service6 minae735a25
Fri 30 Oct 20261:32 pmCall for service13 minac0ea065
Sat 31 Oct 20267:32 amTraining and testing5 minf238a71f
Sat 31 Oct 202610:50 pmCall for service8 min128bf92f
Sat 31 Oct 202611:08 pmCall for service12 min0107801c
Sat 31 Oct 202611:42 pmCall for service19 mindd6aab49

All 89 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 400 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. The whole-record option is an even 400-flight sample.
  • Record source: the agency's Skydio transparency feed?, published under the name University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.