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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington Police Department

Bloomington, Illinois. 518 flights in the record from April 2026.

518

drone flights in the published record.

26

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Where this record comes from

Skydio? Skydio is a US drone maker. Agencies flying its drones as first responders can publish a public flight log on a Skydio-hosted transparency dashboard, which lists each flight with its takeoff, landing, path and stated purpose.

This record publishes flight id, takeoff and landing to the second, full path, stated purpose; every participating agency. Open Bloomington Police Department's own published record.

Bloomington Police Department drones flew 518 times between 4 April 2026 and 1 November 2026, by the agency's own published record. 26 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 26 of 26 flights in October 2026.

26 of the 26 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is the whole flight; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area instead.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

89 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 22 minutes.

19% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

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

  1. Apr 2026: 128 flights. 128
  2. May 2026: 103 flights. 103
  3. Jun 2026: 51 flights. 51
  4. Jul 2026: 83 flights. 83
  5. Aug 2026: 64 flights. 64
  6. Sep 2026: 62 flights. 62
  7. Oct 2026: 26 flights. 26
  8. Nov 2026: 1 flights. 1
Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26Nov 26

The hatched bar is the current month, 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 518 flights.

  1. Training and testing61%
  2. Events12%
  3. Call for service10%
  4. Other9%
  5. Not stated8%

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 20269:29 pmTraining and testing7 min997ffa04
Mon 5 Oct 202610:26 pmTraining and testing5 min3e79f5bb
Mon 5 Oct 202610:32 pmTraining and testing7 mine5439b6a
Sat 10 Oct 20269:07 pmCall for service19 min136336b2
Mon 12 Oct 202610:18 amTraining and testing10 min0816ad19
Sat 17 Oct 20268:17 pmCall for service21 minee2e552e
Sat 17 Oct 20268:41 pmCall for service5 min839dd23d
Sat 17 Oct 20268:54 pmCall for service14 minc8177041
Sun 18 Oct 20268:20 amTraining and testing5 min328697f7
Sun 18 Oct 20268:27 amTraining and testing2 min8c9bcd0e
Sun 18 Oct 20268:30 amTraining and testing1 min 13 s07d618ce
Sun 18 Oct 20268:32 amTraining and testing1 min 49 sfbcc8833
Sun 18 Oct 20268:38 amTraining and testing7 min66b29162
Sun 18 Oct 20268:47 amTraining and testing14 min4d9a021b
Thu 22 Oct 202610:36 amOther7 min62b6448e
Fri 23 Oct 202612:20 amCall for service18 min4f5d6934
Fri 23 Oct 20269:45 pmTraining and testing14 min4ea9c170
Tue 27 Oct 20263:32 pmTraining and testing4 minf4445f00
Tue 27 Oct 20264:17 pmTraining and testing6 min730c664d
Tue 27 Oct 20264:24 pmTraining and testing3 min08ffb6b9
Tue 27 Oct 20264:28 pmTraining and testing4 min37975ace
Tue 27 Oct 20265:54 pmEvents20 s3d502af4
Tue 27 Oct 20266:38 pmEvents9 minf744efdb
Sat 31 Oct 20268:33 amTraining and testing1 min 54 sb0016c65
Sat 31 Oct 20268:30 pmCall for service6 min1404d8a2
Sat 31 Oct 20269:51 pmCall for service18 minb34931cf

All 26 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 400 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. The whole-record option is an even 400-flight sample.
  • Record source: the agency's Skydio transparency feed?, published under the name Bloomington Police Department (IL).
  • Also published as: Bloomington Police Department (the agency's own ArcGIS flight log). This page uses the Skydio record.

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