CityDroneWatch
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  2. Arizona
  3. Mesa
  4. August 2026
  5. 26

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Wednesday 26 August 2026

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

15

drone flights over Mesa that day.

5:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:07 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 15 times on Wednesday 26 August 2026, the first at 5:03 am and the last at 10:07 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 stated67%
  2. Other33%

Flights, in order

15 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 stated2 minMESAPD-2
6:40 amOther12 minMESAPD-2
6:50 amOther24 minMESAPD-2
7:07 amNot stated7 minMESAPD-2
8:05 amOther20 minMESAPD-2
8:07 amNot stated1 min 36 sMESAPD-2
8:10 amNot stated16 minMESAPD-2
9:35 amOther8 minMESAPD-2
12:48 pmOther12 minMESAPD-2
1:02 pmNot stated19 minMESAPD-2
2:10 pmNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
2:17 pmNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
6:46 pmNot stated6 minMESAPD-2
10:07 pmNot stated14 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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