drone flights over Brookhaven that day.

12:43 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 7:11 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brookhaven police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 12:43 pm and the last at 7:11 pm EDT, by Brookhaven Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder78%
Not stated22%

Flights, in order

9 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:43 pm	Not stated	12 min	`585c6ec6`
12:59 pm	Not stated	19 min	`fd30b85f`
1:40 pm	Drone as first responder	20 min	`903eface`
2:23 pm	Drone as first responder	15 min	`d05e1891`
3:39 pm	Drone as first responder	13 min	`5c871a13`
4:40 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`a522823f`
5:12 pm	Drone as first responder	20 min	`2a868f99`
6:48 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`0c7aaf62`
7:11 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`401f7f16`

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.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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