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Bellingham, Washington · one day

Tuesday 20 October 2026

20 drone flights from Bellingham Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Bellingham that day.

12:57 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:45 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bellingham police drones flew 20 times on Tuesday 20 October 2026, the first at 12:57 pm and the last at 9:45 pm PDT, by Bellingham Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Other40%
  3. Training and testing5%

Flights, in order

20 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:57 pmTraining and testing2 minc8322b08
1:01 pmCall for service9 minb64e641f
1:10 pmCall for service8 min6326e762
1:22 pmOther7 min1d3e9c72
1:29 pmOther8 minb66f8e6a
1:37 pmCall for service15 min22f70d2b
2:40 pmOther8 min6a5f383c
3:01 pmCall for service19 minba2f70c3
3:57 pmOther8 min60b69aaf
4:06 pmOther15 minc5a47095
4:34 pmCall for service9 minf12c5bc2
4:53 pmOther9 minc2f16d24
5:08 pmCall for service16 mindfb50e1e
5:25 pmOther7 min667451df
5:44 pmOther17 min432aa24a
6:14 pmCall for service10 mind5f1bd8b
6:57 pmCall for service7 min190048b9
7:30 pmCall for service20 mine35f4eca
7:51 pmCall for service18 min79a865cf
9:45 pmCall for service13 minc8762b02

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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