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  4. September 2026
  5. 7

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Monday 7 September 2026

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

15

drone flights over Mesa that day.

12:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:31 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 15 times on Monday 7 September 2026, the first at 12:44 am and the last at 3:31 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. Other73%
  2. Not stated27%

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
12:44 amOther4 minMESAPD-2
1:39 amOther13 minMESAPD-2
2:54 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
3:51 amOther13 minMESAPD-2
5:48 amNot stated1 min 54 sMESAPD-2
5:52 amNot stated1 min 48 sMESAPD-2
6:49 amOther14 minMESAPD-2
8:57 amOther12 minMESAPD-2
9:18 amNot stated12 minMESAPD-2
10:34 amOther18 minMESAPD-2
10:50 amNot stated19 minMESAPD-2
12:41 pmOther11 minMESAPD-2
1:34 pmOther14 minMESAPD-2
3:07 pmOther12 minMESAPD-2
3:31 pmOther11 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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