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Rowlett Police Department

Dallas, Texas. 77 flights in the record from July 2026.

77

drone flights in the published record.

7

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

14 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 Rowlett Police Department's own published record.

Rowlett Police Department drones flew 77 times between 2 July 2026 and 17 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 7 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 7 of 7 flights in October 2026.

7 of the 7 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

17 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 22 minutes.

18% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

9 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. Jul 2026: 23 flights. 23
  2. Aug 2026: 31 flights. 31
  3. Sep 2026: 16 flights. 16
  4. Oct 2026: 7 flights. 7
Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 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 77 flights.

  1. Call for service56%
  2. Other25%
  3. Not stated18%
  4. Events1%

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
Mon 5 Oct 202612:09 amCall for service11 min1cc11e8b
Wed 7 Oct 20268:59 amNot stated3 min9ba0b0a4
Wed 7 Oct 202612:41 pmOther14 min4a97778d
Fri 9 Oct 20267:09 amOther2 mind0e050a0
Fri 9 Oct 20267:14 amOther7 min2f5a29e8
Tue 13 Oct 202610:45 pmCall for service14 min6702c9eb
Sat 17 Oct 20262:06 pmCall for service8 min749aa61c

All 7 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 Rowlett Police Department (TX).

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