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Nashville, Tennessee · one day

Tuesday 5 May 2026

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

32

drone flights over Nashville that day.

7:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:21 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Nashville police drones flew 32 times on Tuesday 5 May 2026, the first at 7:47 am and the last at 4:21 pm CDT, by Vanderbilt University Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

32 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
7:47 amNot stated3 min8aef4615
7:48 amNot stated6 min2a031295
8:00 amNot stated2 min30ecceeb
8:34 amNot stated7 mind8006777
8:47 amNot stated6 min202d65c5
8:54 amNot stated13 minef37c5bb
9:14 amNot stated14 min4cfee037
9:34 amNot stated4 min3c5bf403
9:42 amNot stated18 mina1e09683
9:52 amNot stated12 mincf5ef816
10:37 amNot stated7 mine2bfc9ed
11:05 amNot stated16 minb097de21
12:42 pmNot stated5 min717d63be
12:50 pmNot stated3 min8ce9b862
1:16 pmNot stated2 min9e98656b
1:19 pmNot stated4 minf587ea73
1:36 pmNot stated3 mina4af102d
1:50 pmNot stated5 minf38b8c96
1:50 pmNot stated4 min1fdf968e
1:59 pmNot stated7 minc4720b3c
2:08 pmNot stated6 minee845cbb
2:20 pmNot stated7 min14f81b8d
2:30 pmNot stated4 min69c92618
2:52 pmNot stated4 min223d370a
3:06 pmNot stated2 minf260b22c
3:07 pmNot stated7 mincb38c33d
3:15 pmNot stated9 min8d2af593
3:22 pmNot stated1 min 05 s7b29bceb
3:37 pmNot stated1 min 18 s38dabba7
3:42 pmNot stated7 min9c3dce70
4:08 pmNot stated6 min27d1d548
4:21 pmNot stated9 minbdc20fa3

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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