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Nashville, Tennessee · one day

Saturday 9 May 2026

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

25

drone flights over Nashville that day.

3:37 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:34 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Nashville police drones flew 25 times on Saturday 9 May 2026, the first at 3:37 pm and the last at 11:34 pm CDT, by Vanderbilt University Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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

25 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
3:37 pmEvents5 min48c4dc8f
3:57 pmEvents8 min826f42fc
4:25 pmEvents7 mine6879057
4:34 pmEvents1 min 42 s52e50b5a
4:56 pmEvents15 min930193f6
5:15 pmEvents16 min57908833
5:42 pmEvents13 mine1a56c92
6:01 pmEvents7 min994011c0
6:19 pmEvents13 minb74b7ff3
6:29 pmEvents11 min8f0c2e6c
6:50 pmEvents15 mindc60317e
7:18 pmEvents9 minaa501209
7:31 pmEvents8 minb2646a9c
7:46 pmEvents11 min957b1b4c
7:58 pmEvents2 min1fd5fb75
8:10 pmEvents9 min4572d995
8:28 pmEvents22 min111cbdce
9:02 pmEvents9 min3077099e
9:15 pmEvents6 min4fb79074
10:19 pmEvents16 mince321203
10:27 pmEvents22 minbd4d8ba5
10:52 pmEvents13 min11b1124c
11:10 pmEvents5 min8da4ce3e
11:28 pmEvents18 min0aaedace
11:34 pmEvents18 min5948bbd2

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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