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  4. September 2026
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Mesa, Arizona · one day

Wednesday 9 September 2026

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

10

drone flights over Mesa that day.

4:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:39 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 9 September 2026, the first at 4:50 am and the last at 4:39 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other70%
  2. Not stated30%

Flights, in order

10 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 amOther14 minMESAPD-2
5:06 amOther12 minMESAPD-2
6:06 amOther11 minMESAPD-2
8:17 amOther24 minMESAPD-2
9:11 amOther26 minMESAPD-2
9:29 amNot stated23 minMESAPD-2
10:55 amOther6 minMESAPD-2
1:14 pmNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
4:10 pmOther15 minMESAPD-2
4:39 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, 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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