drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.

9:26 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:35 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Chesterfield County police drones flew 22 times on Thursday 30 July 2026, the first at 9:26 am and the last at 4:35 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing82%
Call for service18%

Flights, in order

22 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 (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:26 am	Training and testing	17 min	`a3ff5a2a`
9:55 am	Training and testing	44 s	`c03c9e0d`
9:58 am	Call for service	5 min	`c38de012`
10:08 am	Training and testing	10 min	`0771cbb8`
10:29 am	Training and testing	7 min	`c0f2fdec`
10:56 am	Training and testing	9 min	`7879c0c1`
11:06 am	Training and testing	5 min	`206f9f50`
11:13 am	Training and testing	10 min	`c79a12fb`
12:50 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`99e1db76`
12:56 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`5f5bd65b`
1:18 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`e9411c9f`
1:24 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`ce57c4ce`
1:48 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`8abf0a47`
1:51 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`0356a65e`
2:18 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`948621bb`
2:27 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`0f2a71ca`
2:53 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`08512d98`
2:54 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`9a6a5fc0`
3:06 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`fdc6543f`
3:46 pm	Call for service	21 min	`30c75f1e`
4:04 pm	Call for service	14 min	`7e44e26a`
4:35 pm	Call for service	16 min	`090dd507`

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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