9
drone flights over Mesa that day.
8:14 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:26 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Mesa police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 8:14 am and the last at 3:26 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (MST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:14 am | Not stated | 2 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 8:19 am | Not stated | 3 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 8:44 am | Not stated | 14 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 9:27 am | Not stated | 22 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 9:42 am | Other | 19 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 12:39 pm | Other | 9 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 12:43 pm | Other | 9 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 1:07 pm | Not stated | 17 min | MESAPD-2 |
| 3:26 pm | Not stated | 7 min | MESAPD-2 |
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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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