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Belmont, California

Belmont Police Department

Belmont, California. 494 flights in the record from March 2025.

494

drone flights in the published record.

20

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Belmont Police Department drones flew 494 times between 27 March 2025 and 28 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.

19 of the 19 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

115 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 24 minutes.

22% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

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. 4
  2. 26
  3. 40
  4. 18
  5. 31
  6. 43
  7. 20
  8. 17
  9. 33
  10. 25
  11. 29
  12. 16
  13. 21
  14. 21
  15. 31
  16. 30
  17. 19
  18. 19
  19. 31
  20. 20
Mar 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 494 flights.

  1. Assisting another agency33%
  2. Training and testing28%
  3. Other23%
  4. Call for service13%
  5. Not stated3%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 202611:14 amOther9 mine1909200
Sun 4 Oct 20268:50 amOther14 min8b1978e5
Mon 5 Oct 202612:10 amAssisting another agency22 mina96ec03a
Tue 6 Oct 20263:31 amAssisting another agency14 min7bd1ce9a
Wed 7 Oct 20264:18 amAssisting another agency21 min47e045b3
Fri 9 Oct 20263:03 amAssisting another agency13 mine59ddf61
Fri 9 Oct 20266:21 amTraining and testing24 min41299a9a
Fri 9 Oct 20265:16 pmAssisting another agency5 min923b1e5d
Mon 12 Oct 20262:17 amAssisting another agency19 min3f472970
Mon 12 Oct 202610:03 amCall for service22 mine657bb06
Tue 13 Oct 20262:10 amAssisting another agency21 mina2441789
Sun 18 Oct 20263:59 pmOther9 minde54f8dd
Sat 24 Oct 202612:05 pmAssisting another agency16 minbb122827
Sat 24 Oct 202612:45 pmNot stated18 min1e707198
Sat 24 Oct 20261:15 pmAssisting another agency14 min76f0924a
Sat 24 Oct 20261:30 pmAssisting another agency25 minadfc29e3
Sat 24 Oct 20261:58 pmAssisting another agency21 mineb04e994
Mon 26 Oct 202612:14 amNot stated17 min5b46e7f1
Tue 27 Oct 20262:47 amAssisting another agency17 mindc275b0e
Wed 28 Oct 20266:05 amAssisting another agency8 min312c8f63

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.
  • Published by the feed named: Belmont Police Department. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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