drone flights over Virginia Beach that day.

11:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 am.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Virginia Beach police drones flew 3 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 11:10 am and the last at 11:50 am EDT, by Virginia Beach Police Department's published record.

3 drawable flights of 3. 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

Call for service100%

Flights, in order

3 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
11:10 am	Call for service	18 min	5f58328f
11:40 am	Call for service	14 min	8c8c20e8
11:50 am	Call for service	12 min	0fd53ae7

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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