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  4. July 2026
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Mesa, Arizona · one day

Thursday 30 July 2026

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

18

drone flights over Mesa that day.

5:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 30 July 2026, the first at 5:03 am and the last at 11:55 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 stated72%
  2. Other28%

Flights, in order

18 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
5:03 amNot stated1 min 42 sMESAPD-2
5:06 amNot stated1 min 36 sMESAPD-2
7:27 amOther25 minMESAPD-2
8:32 amNot stated19 minMESAPD-2
8:45 amOther17 minMESAPD-2
9:07 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
9:25 amNot stated24 minMESAPD-2
9:57 amNot stated15 minMESAPD-2
11:06 amOther23 minMESAPD-2
11:23 amNot stated22 minMESAPD-2
12:42 pmNot stated8 minMESAPD-2
3:16 pmNot stated3 minMESAPD-2
4:07 pmNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
8:12 pmNot stated3 minMESAPD-2
8:41 pmNot stated5 minMESAPD-2
9:09 pmOther8 minMESAPD-2
9:44 pmNot stated14 minMESAPD-2
11:55 pmNot stated9 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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