17
drone flights in the published record.
15
flights in September 2026, the latest full month.
22 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Washington County Sheriff's Office drones flew 17 times between 19 December 2025 and 26 September 2026, by the agency's own published record. 15 of those flights were in September 2026.
6 hours of flight time in the record.
9 in 10 flights were shorter than 23 minutes.
29% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).
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.
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 17 flights.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.
Flight list, September 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.
| Date | Takeoff (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 8:33 pm | Other | 22 min | d83565f8 |
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 9:05 pm | Other | 22 min | 75bde36f |
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 10:17 pm | Other | 23 min | c1d38b00 |
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 10:43 pm | Other | 22 min | 3f28dd26 |
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 11:07 pm | Other | 23 min | 48e4092a |
| Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 11:47 pm | Other | 24 min | 0ac9cd51 |
| Thu 24 Sep 2026 | 11:17 am | Training and testing | 24 min | 31bee61f |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 5:27 pm | Other | 22 min | 3a24ab54 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 7:19 pm | Other | 21 min | f2890610 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 7:41 pm | Other | 23 min | b1ac8467 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 8:05 pm | Other | 21 min | 04b15e12 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 8:27 pm | Other | 12 min | 64a37675 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 9:22 pm | Other | 23 min | 3c99bc9c |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 9:46 pm | Other | 20 min | 24d2bd91 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 10:08 pm | Other | 20 min | 2b0cf56e |
All 15 listable flights in September 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.
- Published by the feed named:
Washington County SO MD. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.
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