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  4. February 2026
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Mesa, Arizona · one day

Monday 16 February 2026

7 drone flights from Mesa Police Department's published record.

7

drone flights over Mesa that day.

10:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:19 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 7 times on Monday 16 February 2026, the first at 10:23 am and the last at 6:19 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated71%
  2. Other29%

Flights, in order

7 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:23 amNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
10:26 amNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
11:11 amOther16 minMESAPD-2
12:00 pmNot stated21 minMESAPD-2
1:33 pmNot stated6 minMESAPD-2
4:49 pmNot stated12 minMESAPD-2
6:19 pmOther19 minMESAPD-2

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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