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Arlington, Texas

Arlington Police Department

Arlington, Texas. 483 flights in the record from February 2025.

483

drone flights in the published record.

20

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arlington Police Department drones flew 483 times between 6 February 2025 and 31 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 20 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 20 of 20 flights in October 2026.

18 of the 18 flights with a located address in October 2026, sampled evenly. The record gives a street address, not a position: each circle covers about a block around the address as the Census geocoder places it.
One flight, somewhere in this block

110 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 21 minutes.

16% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 12
  2. 8
  3. 0
  4. 1
  5. 20
  6. 2
  7. 26
  8. 36
  9. 26
  10. 5
  11. 24
  12. 33
  13. 39
  14. 24
  15. 19
  16. 16
  17. 37
  18. 32
  19. 58
  20. 45
  21. 20
Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 483 flights.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Not stated6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20265:26 amCall for service20 min08df2072
Fri 2 Oct 20269:52 pmCall for service23 min08df20fc
Sun 4 Oct 202611:16 pmCall for service13 min08df2299
Wed 7 Oct 20263:24 amCall for service18 min08df244e
Wed 7 Oct 20266:14 amCall for service10 min08df2465
Mon 12 Oct 202610:02 pmCall for service7 min08df28d7
Tue 13 Oct 202611:01 pmCall for service16 min08df29aa
Fri 16 Oct 20261:26 amCall for service13 min08df2b50
Fri 16 Oct 20264:11 amCall for service21 min08df2b68
Fri 16 Oct 20269:57 pmCall for service14 min08df2bfc
Sat 17 Oct 20262:05 amCall for service21 min08df2c20
Sat 17 Oct 20263:57 amCall for service14 min08df2c2e
Sat 17 Oct 20264:34 amCall for service17 min08df2c34
Sun 18 Oct 202612:30 amCall for service13 min08df2cda
Sun 18 Oct 202611:16 amCall for service15 min08df2d35
Tue 20 Oct 202611:00 amNot stated0 s08df2ec3
Fri 23 Oct 20269:16 pmCall for service14 min08df3176
Thu 29 Oct 20261:55 pmNot stated25 min08df35fe
Sat 31 Oct 202612:12 amNot stated0 s08df37d6
Sat 31 Oct 20266:59 amNot stated0 s08df3746

All 20 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Record source: Arlington Police Department, via DroneSense public dashboard (https://dashboard.dronesense.com/arpdtx), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; republication accepted by the owner 2026-11-01 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/dronesense/arlington-pd-tx.json, no network at build time.
  • What this record does not publish: no flight path or coordinates (the record gives a street address; 420 of 457 addresses were placed on their block by the US Census Bureau geocoder, or by OpenStreetMap Nominatim for landmarks and business names (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), and the map draws a circle over that block; the rest, mostly intersections and bare street names, are counted but not drawn; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.
  • 6 flights in the crawl landed inside the 48-hour delay and are held back from this build.

Corrections and questions: file an issue in the korvid-labs repository (demo).