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Chesterfield County, Virginia · one day

Thursday 13 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.

9:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:43 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Chesterfield County police drones flew 26 times on Thursday 13 August 2026, the first at 9:34 am and the last at 7:43 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing88%
  2. Call for service12%

Flights, in order

26 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
9:34 amTraining and testing7 min89d06c05
9:52 amTraining and testing6 min6bce7a5b
10:04 amTraining and testing8 minde08b4c5
10:27 amTraining and testing11 min325cf2bd
10:51 amTraining and testing11 minc69f1332
10:51 amTraining and testing13 minc1f93467
11:20 amTraining and testing8 min669b41d2
11:24 amTraining and testing16 minf8a3f21d
11:30 amTraining and testing8 min204367fb
12:17 pmTraining and testing6 min8053957e
12:31 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 sabd98b4e
1:25 pmTraining and testing7 mincf83a1e7
1:39 pmTraining and testing11 mind6ffdff8
2:04 pmTraining and testing10 min4ab06158
2:23 pmTraining and testing9 minb36f4cf6
2:30 pmTraining and testing5 min5a07c04e
2:39 pmTraining and testing12 mined0915fe
2:56 pmTraining and testing7 min06be0295
3:13 pmTraining and testing6 mince0b722d
3:21 pmTraining and testing8 minf8b38f5f
3:36 pmTraining and testing10 minb75e11fe
3:49 pmTraining and testing7 min51221860
3:56 pmTraining and testing10 min5de7ba0f
4:06 pmCall for service9 min2273fb5f
5:52 pmCall for service7 mine44b92f9
7:43 pmCall for service9 mine2e813b5

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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