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  4. April 2026
  5. 15

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Wednesday 15 April 2026

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

16

drone flights over Mesa that day.

4:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:14 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 15 April 2026, the first at 4:50 am and the last at 11:14 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Other56%
  2. Not stated44%

Flights, in order

16 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
4:50 amNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
5:00 amNot stated1 min 42 sMESAPD-2
7:44 amNot stated20 minMESAPD-2
8:14 amOther7 minMESAPD-2
8:22 amOther8 minMESAPD-2
8:40 amOther11 minMESAPD-2
9:25 amOther16 minMESAPD-2
11:29 amOther14 minMESAPD-2
11:30 amOther9 minMESAPD-2
12:49 pmNot stated6 minMESAPD-2
1:35 pmOther9 minMESAPD-2
2:17 pmNot stated19 minMESAPD-2
6:09 pmNot stated16 minMESAPD-2
6:53 pmNot stated18 minMESAPD-2
9:32 pmOther15 minMESAPD-2
11:14 pmOther17 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, 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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