6
drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.
3:44 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 6:07 pm.
3 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Chesterfield County police drones flew 6 times on Thursday 20 August 2026, the first at 3:44 pm and the last at 6:07 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:44 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 9260b6a7 |
| 4:56 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 59571080 |
| 5:07 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 33 s | ffea8e0c |
| 5:11 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 19 s | 38a061ac |
| 5:22 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 57 s | 9c692c3f |
| 6:07 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 53cbba7c |
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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