25,388
drone flights in the published record.
2,402
flights in October 2026, the latest full month.
10%
took off between 10 pm and 6 am.
Where this record comes from
AirData? AirData is a flight-log service for drone fleets. Some agencies publish a public page of their flights there.
This record publishes takeoff time, a point at the block level, stated reason; no duration and no path. Open Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's own published record.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department drones flew 25,388 times between 1 November 2025 and 27 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 2,402 of those flights were in October 2026.
10% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).
— The record publishes no flight durations.
33 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.
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 25,388 flights.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.
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.
The first 500 of 2,402 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: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, via AirData public flight page (https://app.airdata.com/u/lvmpd), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; AirData terms ('solely for your own use').?
- What this record does not publish: no duration (duration tiles and the length filter are not shown); no flight path (the map shows the published block-level point per flight; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.
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