2,909
drone flights in the published record.
289
flights in October 2026, the latest full month.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Where this record comes from
Flock Safety Aerodome? Flock Safety sells licence-plate readers and, through its Aerodome line, drone-as-first-responder systems. Agencies using Aerodome can publish a community transparency dashboard of their drone flights.
This record publishes takeoff and landing to the second, stated call type, block-level address, and a sampled GPS track per flight. Open South Bend Police Department's own published record.
South Bend Police Department drones flew 2,909 times between 8 January 2026 and 1 November 2026, by the agency's own published record. 289 of those flights were in October 2026.
643 hours of flight time in the record.
9 in 10 flights were shorter than 21 minutes.
31% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).
266 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 2,909 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.
All 289 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: South Bend Police Department, via Flock Safety Aerodome community dashboard (https://community.south-bend.in.us.aerodome.com/flights), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; robots.txt Disallow: /.?
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