8
drone flights over Roanoke that day.
6:27 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:35 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Roanoke police drones flew 8 times on Saturday 27 December 2025, the first at 6:27 am and the last at 5:35 pm CST, by Roanoke Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 (CST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:27 am | Not stated | 4 min | TRPD-251 |
| 6:43 am | Not stated | 16 min | TRPD-251 |
| 9:14 am | Not stated | 9 min | TRPD-251 |
| 10:48 am | Not stated | 8 min | TRPD-251 |
| 11:19 am | Not stated | 18 min | TRPD-251 |
| 3:06 pm | Not stated | 16 min | TRPD-251 |
| 3:36 pm | Not stated | 12 min | TRPD-251 |
| 5:35 pm | Not stated | 7 min | TRPD-251 |
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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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