drone flights over Chesterfield County that day.

8:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:03 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Chesterfield County police drones flew 15 times on Friday 28 August 2026, the first at 8:45 am and the last at 2:03 pm EDT, by Chesterfield County Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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

Training and testing80%
Call for service20%

Flights, in order

15 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
8:45 am	Training and testing	8 min	`24c7265b`
8:50 am	Training and testing	1 min 30 s	`e6abdc5e`
8:52 am	Training and testing	1 min 32 s	`b66b9728`
8:54 am	Training and testing	1 min 26 s	`af6b0042`
9:01 am	Training and testing	7 min	`7c770618`
9:31 am	Training and testing	11 min	`78f2721c`
9:52 am	Training and testing	8 min	`52d9e378`
10:08 am	Training and testing	6 min	`4effa692`
10:21 am	Training and testing	8 min	`4d6b25a2`
10:50 am	Training and testing	13 min	`1acf6995`
11:50 am	Training and testing	2 min	`026206ab`
11:55 am	Training and testing	11 min	`b5527eb9`
12:30 pm	Call for service	8 min	`8fd2ee9b`
1:25 pm	Call for service	5 min	`aaf63b96`
2:03 pm	Call for service	8 min	`8b99cf2f`

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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