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Nashville, Tennessee · one day

Monday 4 May 2026

23 drone flights from Vanderbilt University Police Department's published record.

23

drone flights over Nashville that day.

7:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:25 pm.

3 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Nashville police drones flew 23 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 7:48 am and the last at 3:25 pm CDT, by Vanderbilt University Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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, CDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated96%
  2. Other4%

Flights, in order

23 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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:48 amNot stated1 min 21 s920bc2ea
8:04 amNot stated2 min510e3759
8:08 amNot stated1 min 26 sb6284d25
8:15 amOther1 min 27 s1699fc30
12:32 pmNot stated7 min019bc394
1:05 pmNot stated18 mindad83868
1:06 pmNot stated10 minc10f4a93
1:17 pmNot stated6 min8e951f54
1:33 pmNot stated12 min2d086616
1:58 pmNot stated20 mincc329648
2:19 pmNot stated9 mina8973619
2:37 pmNot stated3 min0634c14b
2:37 pmNot stated2 min665cbf7b
2:44 pmNot stated4 min50fc9f93
2:44 pmNot stated3 min2adff287
2:48 pmNot stated2 minda83e58c
3:03 pmNot stated2 minad6a4b60
3:04 pmNot stated1 min 54 s7bf35de3
3:06 pmNot stated6 min52ef9c80
3:07 pmNot stated3 min26716095
3:11 pmNot stated2 min0295b4ab
3:13 pmNot stated2 mine51482a7
3:25 pmNot stated3 min7ba8a6e3

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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