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  4. October 2026
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Bellingham, Washington · one day

Wednesday 21 October 2026

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

21

drone flights over Bellingham that day.

1:20 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:27 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bellingham police drones flew 21 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 1:20 pm and the last at 9:27 pm PDT, by Bellingham Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Other52%
  2. Call for service33%
  3. Training and testing14%

Flights, in order

21 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
1:20 pmOther14 min55e93381
2:01 pmOther9 minecce042b
2:19 pmTraining and testing1 min 05 s98be19fd
2:28 pmOther9 mind47a500e
2:50 pmCall for service4 min3f331667
3:07 pmOther7 min4fbe9670
3:25 pmTraining and testing4 min5d0e774d
3:31 pmOther12 min340db877
5:10 pmOther22 min7a685999
5:33 pmCall for service14 minaa2cd99e
5:58 pmCall for service9 min51c94a90
6:17 pmCall for service19 min9406d7bb
6:55 pmOther11 min80d55f97
7:12 pmCall for service10 min15e87a70
7:24 pmOther9 min0ce216cd
8:15 pmCall for service17 min3eac8747
8:33 pmCall for service7 minae7a501f
8:45 pmOther2 min4e35a88b
8:49 pmOther11 mind6cb0251
9:21 pmTraining and testing5 min5f46ad95
9:27 pmOther1 min 20 s410a6776

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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