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Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University Police Department

Carbondale, Illinois. 915 flights in the record from July 2025.

915

drone flights in the published record.

26

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

11 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 Southern Illinois University Police Department's own published record.

Southern Illinois University Police Department drones flew 915 times between 31 July 2025 and 29 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 26 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 26 of 26 flights in October 2026.

26 of the 26 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

187 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 24 minutes.

11% 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 2025: 2 flights. 2
  2. Aug 2025: 84 flights. 84
  3. Sep 2025: 142 flights. 142
  4. Oct 2025: 121 flights. 121
  5. Nov 2025: 45 flights. 45
  6. Dec 2025: 19 flights. 19
  7. Jan 2026: 48 flights. 48
  8. Feb 2026: 50 flights. 50
  9. Mar 2026: 48 flights. 48
  10. Apr 2026: 63 flights. 63
  11. May 2026: 66 flights. 66
  12. Jun 2026: 52 flights. 52
  13. Jul 2026: 44 flights. 44
  14. Aug 2026: 58 flights. 58
  15. Sep 2026: 47 flights. 47
  16. Oct 2026: 26 flights. 26
Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 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 915 flights.

  1. Not stated66%
  2. Other27%
  3. Traffic and crashes3%
  4. Call for service2%
  5. Training and testing1%

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 202610:16 amCall for service9 minSIUPD-26
Thu 8 Oct 20262:08 amOther14 minSIUPD-26
Thu 8 Oct 20262:22 amNot stated8 minSIUPD-26
Thu 8 Oct 202612:02 pmOther5 minSIUPD-26
Thu 8 Oct 20263:27 pmOther12 minSIUPD-26
Thu 8 Oct 20264:24 pmOther11 minSIUPD-26
Sat 10 Oct 202610:03 amOther8 minSIUPD-26
Mon 12 Oct 20262:07 pmOther12 minSIUPD-26
Mon 12 Oct 20263:14 pmOther4 minSIUPD-26
Wed 14 Oct 20262:22 pmOther5 minSIUPD-26
Thu 15 Oct 20261:53 pmCall for service20 minSIUPD-26
Thu 15 Oct 20263:35 pmNot stated22 minSIUPD-26
Fri 16 Oct 20268:29 amOther7 minSIUPD-26
Fri 16 Oct 20263:10 pmOther7 minSIUPD-26
Mon 19 Oct 20268:55 amOther17 minSIUPD-26
Mon 19 Oct 20262:06 pmNot stated20 minSIUPD-26
Wed 21 Oct 20261:20 pmTraffic and crashes8 minSIUPD-26
Thu 22 Oct 20262:30 pmCall for service8 minSIUPD-26
Fri 23 Oct 20269:04 amTraffic and crashes11 minSIUPD-26
Fri 23 Oct 202612:52 pmOther17 minSIUPD-26
Tue 27 Oct 202612:57 pmOther25 minSIUPD-26
Tue 27 Oct 20261:41 pmOther20 minSIUPD-26
Tue 27 Oct 20265:51 pmCall for service14 minSIUPD-26
Wed 28 Oct 20267:22 amNot stated19 minSIUPD-26
Wed 28 Oct 20268:14 pmNot stated17 minSIUPD-26
Thu 29 Oct 20261:06 pmOther10 minSIUPD-26

All 26 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: Southern Illinois University Police Department, via Flock Safety Aerodome community dashboard (https://community.southern-illinois-university.il.us.aerodome.com/flights), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; robots.txt Disallow: /.?

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