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Melrose Park, Illinois

Melrose Park Police Department

Melrose Park, Illinois. 398 flights in the record from May 2026.

398

drone flights in the published record.

104

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Melrose Park Police Department drones flew 398 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 104 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 104 of 104 flights in October 2026.

100 of the 100 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

63 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 17 minutes.

4% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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. 63
  2. 64
  3. 46
  4. 48
  5. 73
  6. 104
May 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 398 flights.

  1. Call for service66%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Training and testing10%
  4. Events5%
  5. Other4%

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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20269:10 amCall for service10 mina9728fa8
Thu 1 Oct 202610:59 amCall for service57 sfdf85a1d
Thu 1 Oct 202611:01 amCall for service9 mind6cdb2e5
Thu 1 Oct 20261:35 pmCall for service6 minbb5cbe0e
Thu 1 Oct 20261:59 pmCall for service8 min822554aa
Thu 1 Oct 20263:19 pmCall for service11 minab316356
Fri 2 Oct 20269:46 amNot stated13 min612c92d2
Fri 2 Oct 202612:57 pmNot stated12 minbeb6176b
Fri 2 Oct 20264:31 pmCall for service19 min86a8f8bf
Fri 2 Oct 20266:06 pmCall for service10 mined6666b3
Fri 2 Oct 20266:46 pmCall for service5 mine39b7051
Fri 2 Oct 20266:59 pmNot stated7 mina72b8d72
Fri 2 Oct 20267:50 pmNot stated11 min50d726ae
Fri 2 Oct 20269:22 pmNot stated15 min2a259140
Sat 3 Oct 20264:18 pmNot stated10 minacf14892
Sat 3 Oct 20265:26 pmNot stated15 min2de20a89
Sat 3 Oct 20266:22 pmNot stated5 min2a7f87eb
Sun 4 Oct 20267:55 pmNot stated5 minae7c3c9b
Sun 4 Oct 20269:35 pmNot stated9 minb86a1aa1
Sun 4 Oct 202610:05 pmCall for service14 min5bfff74f
Sun 4 Oct 202610:45 pmCall for service12 min7f54b95b
Mon 5 Oct 20268:34 amCall for service12 min153c9241
Mon 5 Oct 202610:14 amCall for service13 min768bd8e8
Mon 5 Oct 20261:36 pmCall for service3 min91cc65e1
Mon 5 Oct 20266:29 pmCall for service7 minbae33632
Tue 6 Oct 20261:12 pmCall for service13 minfcfed581
Tue 6 Oct 20265:59 pmCall for service8 min00e7b872
Tue 6 Oct 20266:08 pmCall for service10 min43e2ddc7
Tue 6 Oct 20266:59 pmCall for service4 min6ff75fca
Wed 7 Oct 202610:24 amCall for service13 min9a0c2316
Wed 7 Oct 202610:55 amCall for service17 minceca31d8
Wed 7 Oct 202611:34 amCall for service7 minf0c7e43d
Wed 7 Oct 202612:30 pmCall for service52 s7b949d09
Wed 7 Oct 202612:31 pmCall for service19 minb8321248
Wed 7 Oct 20262:19 pmCall for service7 minf4767c97
Wed 7 Oct 20262:28 pmCall for service5 min880acb12
Wed 7 Oct 20266:15 pmCall for service9 minb4f3bd40
Thu 8 Oct 20262:51 pmCall for service6 min90a9990c
Thu 8 Oct 20267:20 pmCall for service6 min103b5396
Thu 8 Oct 20268:48 pmCall for service18 mincc9abdd8
Thu 8 Oct 20269:38 pmCall for service8 minc3c98df5
Fri 9 Oct 202610:07 amCall for service9 mince8ade33
Fri 9 Oct 202610:24 amCall for service12 minceda948b
Mon 12 Oct 202611:58 amCall for service11 min28fe9a5b
Mon 12 Oct 20261:05 pmCall for service14 min1d0aa916
Mon 12 Oct 20262:29 pmCall for service8 minfc6fffe5
Mon 12 Oct 20266:38 pmOther9 min54127f2d
Mon 12 Oct 20267:34 pmCall for service3 min0afd67a2
Mon 12 Oct 20267:47 pmOther10 min09cb0c99
Mon 12 Oct 20268:50 pmCall for service4 min785d8570
Tue 13 Oct 20267:36 amNot stated9 min2d05315c
Tue 13 Oct 20263:27 pmCall for service11 min969088db
Tue 13 Oct 20265:27 pmCall for service5 min1fd9a6d5
Tue 13 Oct 20268:07 pmCall for service14 min5b3de68e
Tue 13 Oct 20268:27 pmCall for service6 min77745527
Wed 14 Oct 202610:43 amCall for service8 minef8fe2a9
Wed 14 Oct 20262:08 pmCall for service14 minf4897a67
Wed 14 Oct 20263:47 pmCall for service4 min8bdec890
Wed 14 Oct 20267:21 pmCall for service12 min3d8574f9
Sun 18 Oct 20267:32 pmCall for service13 mine00ddf25
Sun 18 Oct 202610:10 pmCall for service9 min66dec9a9
Mon 19 Oct 20269:24 amCall for service15 min94561f82
Mon 19 Oct 202611:32 amCall for service7 mine1c5e6d7
Mon 19 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service8 minedaeae95
Mon 19 Oct 202610:08 pmOther6 mineea307ca
Tue 20 Oct 20262:12 pmCall for service9 minfeb016a3
Wed 21 Oct 202610:33 amNot stated18 minf805901d
Wed 21 Oct 20263:40 pmCall for service11 min3690e29c
Wed 21 Oct 20265:08 pmCall for service8 min5ad1b35a
Wed 21 Oct 20267:33 pmCall for service11 min195fe78f
Wed 21 Oct 20268:14 pmCall for service16 min0633baf8
Thu 22 Oct 20261:39 pmCall for service7 min1bee209d
Thu 22 Oct 20264:02 pmCall for service22 min86429287
Thu 22 Oct 20264:29 pmCall for service2 min1b00d96c
Thu 22 Oct 20265:28 pmCall for service8 minf5648bc6
Thu 22 Oct 20265:52 pmCall for service7 min65538a22
Fri 23 Oct 202612:55 pmCall for service5 min5c404096
Fri 23 Oct 20263:03 pmCall for service8 min7d74cd23
Tue 27 Oct 20269:07 amNot stated10 minaab9a4e5
Tue 27 Oct 20269:41 amCall for service13 minb11b0499
Wed 28 Oct 20269:05 amCall for service15 minf577d313
Wed 28 Oct 202611:18 amTraining and testing16 mindae637a7
Wed 28 Oct 202612:54 pmOther10 min4ac83a71
Wed 28 Oct 20261:05 pmOther1 min 00 s07d4d140
Wed 28 Oct 20265:06 pmCall for service6 min282239a9
Thu 29 Oct 202611:23 amCall for service17 min320e0ac2
Thu 29 Oct 20261:44 pmCall for service4 minef612dbb
Thu 29 Oct 20262:01 pmNot stated12 min087e79ce
Fri 30 Oct 20268:56 amCall for service18 min7795af6d
Fri 30 Oct 20269:48 amCall for service20 min2a4fb2d3
Fri 30 Oct 202611:35 amCall for service6 minfb9125fc
Fri 30 Oct 202612:06 pmTraining and testing2 min4a1c6856
Fri 30 Oct 20263:04 pmCall for service12 min18e9cef7
Fri 30 Oct 20265:22 pmCall for service17 min1fd4723c
Fri 30 Oct 20266:41 pmTraining and testing5 min0e565f86
Fri 30 Oct 20268:00 pmCall for service6 min1819e731
Fri 30 Oct 20268:10 pmCall for service14 mind1c7eb94
Fri 30 Oct 20269:08 pmCall for service7 minbda62063
Fri 30 Oct 20269:21 pmCall for service8 minb39a10bf
Fri 30 Oct 20269:35 pmCall for service10 min2e6bfe67
Sat 31 Oct 20267:27 amCall for service8 min88adc3cd
Sat 31 Oct 20267:49 amCall for service4 minfd357471
Sat 31 Oct 20268:12 amCall for service20 min58c72c3d
Sat 31 Oct 202612:04 pmCall for service17 min13c9d0e3

All 104 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: Melrose PARK Police Department (IL). The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.
  • 4 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).