drone flights over Bellingham that day.

11:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:17 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bellingham police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 20 August 2026, the first at 11:12 am and the last at 3:17 pm PDT, by Bellingham Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing88%
Not stated12%

Flights, in order

17 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 (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
11:12 am	Training and testing	20 min	`e736885a`
12:06 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`ad61b84a`
12:24 pm	Training and testing	40 s	`7c73118a`
12:50 pm	Not stated	42 s	`03c269c4`
12:53 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`f1e120fb`
12:54 pm	Not stated	12 min	`8a3dccfa`
1:07 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`d3320beb`
1:25 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`73885a1e`
2:10 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`dfad9b38`
2:18 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`f66658d2`
2:27 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`3ba5e3e8`
2:36 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`1db30d5c`
2:39 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`5eb41314`
2:50 pm	Training and testing	1 min 05 s	`8b5d5911`
2:53 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`dea32f8d`
3:00 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`93c7b2a4`
3:17 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`d6b54156`

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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