6
drone flights over Laurel that day.
9:16 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:42 pm.
4 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Laurel police drones flew 6 times on Thursday 3 September 2026, the first at 9:16 am and the last at 9:42 pm EDT, by Laurel Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:16 am | Training and testing | 2 min | a68bd7cb |
| 9:30 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 5950e3df |
| 9:35 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 90ad27da |
| 7:38 pm | Traffic and crashes | 4 min | 817e5814 |
| 7:56 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 50af68b8 |
| 9:42 pm | Call for service | 14 min | c134c178 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- 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 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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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