7
drone flights over Roanoke that day.
6:13 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Roanoke police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 18 February 2026, the first at 6:13 am and the last at 11:50 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:13 am | Not stated | 1 min 54 s | TRPD-260 |
| 6:21 am | Other | 17 min | TRPD-260 |
| 10:56 am | Not stated | 1 min 48 s | TRPD-260 |
| 4:44 pm | Other | 25 min | TRPD-260 |
| 5:53 pm | Not stated | 11 min | TRPD-260 |
| 6:08 pm | Other | 14 min | TRPD-260 |
| 11:50 pm | Not stated | 23 min | TRPD-260 |
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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