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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady Police Department

Schenectady, New York. 1,986 flights in the record from May 2025.

1,986

drone flights in the published record.

98

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady Police Department drones flew 1,986 times between 13 May 2025 and 30 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 98 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 98 of 98 flights in October 2026.

90 of the 90 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

475 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 22 minutes.

1% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

95 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. 89
  2. 48
  3. 113
  4. 110
  5. 56
  6. 152
  7. 141
  8. 130
  9. 131
  10. 110
  11. 113
  12. 154
  13. 143
  14. 138
  15. 104
  16. 80
  17. 76
  18. 98
May 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 1,986 flights.

  1. Call for service72%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Other5%
  4. Patrol support4%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%
  6. Search0%
  7. Events0%

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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 5 Oct 202610:50 amCall for service19 minc0970455
Mon 5 Oct 202611:17 amCall for service6 minacb6e6dc
Mon 5 Oct 20261:14 pmCall for service12 min150f68c9
Mon 5 Oct 20262:41 pmCall for service8 mindbc66926
Tue 6 Oct 20268:25 amCall for service22 min95476680
Tue 6 Oct 20268:57 amCall for service14 min4e74e3d4
Tue 6 Oct 20269:36 amCall for service12 minfe39b2be
Tue 6 Oct 20269:52 amCall for service11 mincadee901
Tue 6 Oct 20261:54 pmCall for service21 min2aa50e3a
Tue 6 Oct 20263:12 pmCall for service8 min73dbc390
Tue 6 Oct 20263:22 pmCall for service8 minc3ac11f0
Wed 7 Oct 202610:31 amCall for service20 min279ffb65
Wed 7 Oct 202611:51 amCall for service22 min43f8255c
Wed 7 Oct 202612:14 pmCall for service20 min32ced867
Wed 7 Oct 20261:26 pmTraffic and crashes17 minb94117fd
Wed 7 Oct 20262:16 pmCall for service7 mind5deea8d
Thu 8 Oct 202611:13 amCall for service21 min6db6583e
Thu 8 Oct 202611:48 amOther18 min2bc3e0af
Thu 8 Oct 202612:25 pmCall for service22 min9904a53e
Thu 8 Oct 20261:07 pmCall for service2 mine826458c
Thu 8 Oct 20261:43 pmCall for service12 min063e8bb3
Thu 8 Oct 20263:09 pmCall for service18 min27f2f372
Fri 9 Oct 202612:18 pmCall for service22 mind32a8c45
Fri 9 Oct 20261:26 pmCall for service14 min86f2cb30
Mon 12 Oct 20268:50 amCall for service21 min9c47e0dc
Mon 12 Oct 202612:44 pmCall for service20 minef0b4c47
Mon 12 Oct 20261:43 pmCall for service7 min98822ce1
Tue 13 Oct 20268:29 amCall for service21 min0a348446
Tue 13 Oct 20269:53 amCall for service9 min3d954b03
Tue 13 Oct 20262:03 pmCall for service15 min8b456761
Tue 13 Oct 20262:29 pmCall for service12 minf3a58f26
Wed 14 Oct 20268:16 amCall for service20 min11f12417
Wed 14 Oct 20268:39 amCall for service19 minfa53a8ee
Wed 14 Oct 202611:05 amCall for service22 min99c81a0c
Wed 14 Oct 20262:37 pmCall for service11 minb3eafb29
Thu 15 Oct 20268:39 amCall for service21 min2f6d9fdb
Thu 15 Oct 202612:04 pmCall for service20 min5e17ed2a
Thu 15 Oct 20261:29 pmCall for service13 mina4b357d9
Thu 15 Oct 20267:15 pmCall for service1 min 42 s2fbd4d9c
Thu 15 Oct 20267:52 pmCall for service20 minf23a255e
Fri 16 Oct 20268:54 amCall for service12 min1e68ca5c
Fri 16 Oct 20269:27 amCall for service5 mind334b16a
Fri 16 Oct 202611:58 amCall for service10 mind3bbb3c0
Fri 16 Oct 202612:32 pmCall for service7 mina2ef1e90
Fri 16 Oct 202612:44 pmCall for service11 mine3c8c13e
Sat 17 Oct 20268:37 pmTraffic and crashes20 min0aed1962
Sat 17 Oct 20269:02 pmTraffic and crashes21 min7b9b568a
Mon 19 Oct 202610:40 amCall for service18 min4abdef1a
Mon 19 Oct 202612:07 pmCall for service20 minf082af36
Mon 19 Oct 20261:31 pmCall for service22 mina2a540d3
Mon 19 Oct 20262:34 pmCall for service19 minef0b6b32
Tue 20 Oct 20268:22 amCall for service10 min416aa286
Tue 20 Oct 20268:39 amCall for service10 min0226781d
Tue 20 Oct 202612:19 pmCall for service22 min06c9f9d3
Tue 20 Oct 202612:56 pmCall for service7 minb0a8bb7a
Tue 20 Oct 20261:04 pmCall for service10 mindf42bb23
Tue 20 Oct 20262:09 pmCall for service20 min83fea300
Tue 20 Oct 20262:53 pmCall for service5 mina2e73044
Tue 20 Oct 20263:14 pmCall for service21 mincc0cef6d
Tue 20 Oct 20263:39 pmCall for service20 min321519de
Tue 20 Oct 20264:06 pmCall for service7 min39202ac1
Tue 20 Oct 20264:31 pmCall for service22 minc3c8f1dd
Tue 20 Oct 20265:56 pmCall for service20 mine2add531
Tue 20 Oct 20266:19 pmCall for service25 min843fa6f1
Wed 21 Oct 20268:22 amCall for service2 min25fe9d9f
Wed 21 Oct 20268:25 amCall for service12 min965b3203
Wed 21 Oct 20269:28 amCall for service13 min59f55aaf
Wed 21 Oct 202611:54 amCall for service7 min8509b187
Wed 21 Oct 20262:37 pmCall for service18 mine58bc3f7
Thu 22 Oct 202612:07 pmCall for service21 min4144e817
Thu 22 Oct 202612:47 pmTraffic and crashes10 min51470248
Thu 22 Oct 20262:18 pmCall for service15 min90309522
Thu 22 Oct 20262:53 pmCall for service21 mine1b07a21
Mon 26 Oct 20268:44 amCall for service17 min008eaa28
Mon 26 Oct 202610:26 amCall for service12 min64318980
Mon 26 Oct 202611:17 amCall for service17 mind92b295e
Mon 26 Oct 202611:38 amCall for service21 min17648fde
Mon 26 Oct 202612:03 pmCall for service2 min611c5ff7
Mon 26 Oct 202612:21 pmCall for service7 min4e4f459e
Tue 27 Oct 20268:13 amCall for service15 min3e991707
Tue 27 Oct 20269:58 amCall for service22 min61bea612
Tue 27 Oct 20261:03 pmCall for service20 min553cd752
Tue 27 Oct 20261:25 pmCall for service9 minb59ae78d
Tue 27 Oct 20262:23 pmCall for service16 min61d901cb
Wed 28 Oct 20269:06 amCall for service18 mina02b9f7d
Wed 28 Oct 20269:45 amCall for service14 min4456a531
Wed 28 Oct 202612:13 pmTraffic and crashes20 min85e9f1b4
Wed 28 Oct 20262:43 pmCall for service17 min30cb8c74
Thu 29 Oct 20268:47 amCall for service22 min390e22d5
Thu 29 Oct 20269:31 amCall for service14 min0b27a23d
Thu 29 Oct 202611:49 amCall for service22 min1089e0ce
Thu 29 Oct 20262:40 pmCall for service21 minae2b016b
Thu 29 Oct 20263:32 pmCall for service14 min42b7e5d0
Thu 29 Oct 202610:09 pmCall for service15 minaa708122
Fri 30 Oct 20261:39 pmCall for service18 min481196de

All 95 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.
  • Record source: Schenectady Police Department, via BRINC LiveOps public dashboard (https://dashboard.liveops.brincdrones.com/schenectadyny), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; republication accepted by the owner 2026-11-01 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/brinc/schenectady-pd-ny.json, no network at build time.

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