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Tampa, Florida

Tampa Police Department

Tampa, Florida. 754 flights in the record from January 2026.

754

drone flights in the published record.

17

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Tampa Police Department drones flew 754 times between 3 January 2026 and 4 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 17 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 17 of 17 flights in October 2026.

15 of the 15 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

161 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 20 minutes.

28% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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. 4
  2. 40
  3. 7
  4. 130
  5. 153
  6. 79
  7. 96
  8. 112
  9. 116
  10. 17
Jan 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 754 flights.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Events16%
  3. Traffic and crashes13%
  4. Training and testing7%
  5. Search4%
  6. Not stated1%

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 (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20264:15 pmTraining and testing6 min6c739c01
Thu 1 Oct 20265:11 pmTraining and testing4 min6b1cb2d7
Thu 1 Oct 20268:25 pmTraining and testing14 minc3d66a61
Sat 3 Oct 20268:12 pmSearch18 min31f7b7dd
Sat 3 Oct 20268:31 pmSearch18 min54e01aa4
Sat 3 Oct 20269:07 pmEvents16 min30ac1d5b
Sat 3 Oct 20269:23 pmCall for service5 min63c5806d
Sat 3 Oct 20269:34 pmEvents19 min5c63b583
Sat 3 Oct 20269:53 pmEvents17 min4d63c423
Sat 3 Oct 202610:11 pmEvents16 min0e94e4b5
Sat 3 Oct 202610:28 pmEvents17 minf1888fdc
Sat 3 Oct 202610:47 pmEvents18 mindc06c624
Sat 3 Oct 202611:06 pmEvents20 mindb41bef9
Sat 3 Oct 202611:27 pmEvents16 min713257dc
Sat 3 Oct 202611:47 pmEvents16 minbb84bc51
Sun 4 Oct 202612:06 amEvents15 minc43091b5
Sun 4 Oct 202612:23 amEvents16 minbe520280

All 17 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: Tampa Police Department. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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