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Madison

A planning area page. 395 of the 395 flights in Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's record crossed this area.

395

drone flights crossed Madison.

47

of them in August 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Madison 395 times between 26 May 2026 and 7 August 2026, by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 7 August 2026.

47 of the 47 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
MadisonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

95 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

5% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

51 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Madison, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 45
  2. 82
  3. 221
  4. 47
May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 395 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Other50%
  3. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 4 Aug 20269:39 amCall for service13 min59988072
Tue 4 Aug 202611:39 amOther7 minbbb2fc5d
Tue 4 Aug 202612:38 pmCall for service15 mina27feb53
Tue 4 Aug 20263:36 pmOther12 min3204e4af
Tue 4 Aug 20264:15 pmOther12 min6797eabb
Tue 4 Aug 20265:18 pmOther10 min924bda5a
Tue 4 Aug 20266:16 pmCall for service17 min138a57ca
Tue 4 Aug 20266:45 pmOther15 mincdee1165
Tue 4 Aug 20266:57 pmOther8 min9dd287a7
Tue 4 Aug 20267:14 pmCall for service12 minc7be81cc
Tue 4 Aug 20267:32 pmCall for service12 min3f7eb2f3
Tue 4 Aug 20269:07 pmOther8 mincf8d82ed
Tue 4 Aug 20269:38 pmOther10 min919bc920
Tue 4 Aug 202610:30 pmCall for service19 mind9c08866
Wed 5 Aug 20267:18 amCall for service14 min0acd8155
Wed 5 Aug 202611:43 amCall for service11 min887ed112
Wed 5 Aug 20261:02 pmCall for service12 min51406c25
Wed 5 Aug 20265:49 pmOther15 min8a881c58
Wed 5 Aug 20265:55 pmOther18 min8362caa3
Wed 5 Aug 20266:09 pmOther18 min4ee3afe7
Wed 5 Aug 20266:22 pmOther8 min4046cf84
Wed 5 Aug 20267:03 pmCall for service1 min 57 sf815fa49
Wed 5 Aug 20267:47 pmOther8 min1cba840d
Wed 5 Aug 20268:51 pmCall for service16 min872e9650
Wed 5 Aug 20268:56 pmOther10 min05a591dc
Wed 5 Aug 20269:15 pmCall for service11 mind0a9e51e
Wed 5 Aug 20269:59 pmOther10 min6d835598
Wed 5 Aug 202610:13 pmOther16 min600bf8cc
Thu 6 Aug 20267:29 amCall for service18 minbd5a5908
Thu 6 Aug 20268:11 amOther20 min3f02807a
Thu 6 Aug 20268:35 amCall for service14 min7799fd05
Thu 6 Aug 202611:12 amOther19 min5524d01c
Thu 6 Aug 202612:53 pmCall for service9 mina3e84638
Thu 6 Aug 20261:03 pmCall for service12 min09d4f235
Thu 6 Aug 20261:23 pmCall for service20 minb29b7ba0
Thu 6 Aug 20264:10 pmOther6 mine0d9e3ab
Thu 6 Aug 20264:31 pmOther10 min439ea100
Thu 6 Aug 20266:04 pmOther17 min20be8130
Thu 6 Aug 20266:17 pmOther17 min55e9c5c4
Thu 6 Aug 20267:02 pmCall for service10 min3c61ac21
Thu 6 Aug 20268:08 pmCall for service15 minabd523cd
Thu 6 Aug 20269:49 pmOther7 min25b4b7bf
Fri 7 Aug 20269:10 amCall for service18 mined03d8a7
Fri 7 Aug 202610:32 amCall for service19 min13693a91
Fri 7 Aug 20265:49 pmOther9 min8f587d65
Fri 7 Aug 20268:29 pmCall for service14 minf248e3f6
Fri 7 Aug 202610:05 pmOther12 min41e64102

All 47 flights in August 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Madison" is a planning area polygon from Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (Community Planning Areas), licence recorded as "Metro Nashville Open Data Executive Order FO-018", in the place layer file for Nashville.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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