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  4. May 2026
  5. 8

Nashville, Tennessee · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

19

drone flights over Nashville that day.

5:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:44 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Nashville police drones flew 19 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 5:41 am and the last at 2:44 pm CDT, by Vanderbilt University Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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

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Flights, in order

19 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
5:41 amEvents1 min 47 s2c732fc0
7:04 amEvents10 min1ab9d249
7:28 amEvents4 min29226733
7:32 amEvents5 minf3af814c
7:39 amEvents4 minf4143f42
7:53 amEvents8 min5bb10f41
8:23 amEvents4 min82bf9af1
8:33 amEvents5 min640563dd
8:39 amEvents10 min6aff9663
8:51 amEvents8 min066ade1a
8:55 amEvents23 min33df5ce7
9:07 amEvents3 min94b04db9
9:30 amEvents3 min6b1b8784
12:36 pmEvents25 mina9c89c8d
12:56 pmEvents23 min33a18de2
1:27 pmEvents9 min20d37a2b
1:48 pmEvents14 mina5d286d4
2:20 pmEvents12 min755dbf49
2:44 pmEvents3 min19da6388

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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