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  4. April 2026
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Mooresville, North Carolina · one day

Thursday 16 April 2026

11 drone flights from Mooresville Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Mooresville that day.

6:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:11 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mooresville police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 6:44 am and the last at 4:11 pm EDT, by Mooresville Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other36%
  2. Call for service27%
  3. Not stated18%
  4. Search9%
  5. Traffic and crashes9%

Flights, in order

11 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
6:44 amSearch22 minMVILLEPD
7:01 amNot stated4 minMVILLEPD
7:11 amOther8 minMVILLEPD
7:35 amTraffic and crashes8 minMVILLEPD
9:20 amOther10 minMVILLEPD
10:16 amCall for service17 minMVILLEPD
10:47 amOther22 minMVILLEPD
1:52 pmOther26 minMVILLEPD
2:33 pmCall for service15 minMVILLEPD
3:00 pmCall for service29 minMVILLEPD
4:11 pmNot stated18 minMVILLEPD

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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