5
drone flights over Roanoke that day.
6:09 am
first takeoff; the last was at 1:01 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Roanoke police drones flew 5 times on Friday 20 February 2026, the first at 6:09 am and the last at 1:01 pm CST, by Roanoke Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
5 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:09 am | Not stated | 1 min 24 s | TRPD-260 |
| 6:18 am | Other | 15 min | TRPD-260 |
| 10:02 am | Not stated | 14 min | TRPD-260 |
| 10:38 am | Other | 14 min | TRPD-260 |
| 1:01 pm | Other | 174 min | TRPD-260 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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