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Chesterfield County, Virginia · one day

Monday 3 August 2026

9 drone flights from Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

9

drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.

2:23 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Chesterfield County police drones flew 9 times on Monday 3 August 2026, the first at 2:23 pm and the last at 11:33 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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

  1. Training and testing78%
  2. Call for service22%

Flights, in order

9 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:23 pmTraining and testing9 min77a78054
4:00 pmTraining and testing45 sedbd5e58
5:05 pmCall for service7 min9e17cccb
5:15 pmTraining and testing3 min680e7cee
5:17 pmTraining and testing1 min 53 s8de7ab8d
6:07 pmTraining and testing3 min53d88302
6:20 pmCall for service9 min20ba8f51
8:57 pmTraining and testing19 min8dd1db48
11:33 pmTraining and testing17 min2613de2a

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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