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Chesterfield County, Virginia · one day

Friday 14 August 2026

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

21

drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.

8:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:30 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Chesterfield County police drones flew 21 times on Friday 14 August 2026, the first at 8:18 am and the last at 9:30 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Call for service52%
  2. Training and testing48%

Flights, in order

21 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
8:18 amCall for service5 minbc295416
8:54 amCall for service17 min28192698
9:21 amTraining and testing9 min6df99f1a
9:39 amTraining and testing10 min412caa84
9:50 amTraining and testing7 minfde18778
10:04 amTraining and testing12 min60286bd1
10:15 amTraining and testing8 min9ca6379a
10:33 amTraining and testing11 min431e50ce
10:43 amTraining and testing12 mind992f004
11:14 amCall for service18 min79331f1b
11:48 amCall for service11 mincd883411
12:23 pmCall for service7 mine25473dc
1:13 pmCall for service10 mind78f1edb
2:26 pmCall for service21 min7b71f9b3
2:52 pmTraining and testing4 minf5858f0a
2:56 pmTraining and testing1 min 19 se89f9a1f
5:39 pmCall for service7 min1610715c
6:06 pmCall for service13 minc89300fc
6:21 pmCall for service4 min71e53797
6:26 pmCall for service17 min39506690
9:30 pmTraining and testing11 min1655a4d4

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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