8
drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.
7:58 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:22 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Chesterfield County police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 7:58 am and the last at 9:22 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:58 am | Training and testing | 1 min 27 s | 526a8c11 |
| 9:47 am | Training and testing | 11 min | d6eebd6a |
| 10:54 am | Training and testing | 8 min | 19fa13ab |
| 12:27 pm | Call for service | 17 min | dbe47120 |
| 1:23 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | 8d7ef9dd |
| 3:48 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 3d0ed97d |
| 4:14 pm | Call for service | 7 min | f38882c7 |
| 9:22 pm | Call for service | 13 min | d1d4dc23 |
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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