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  4. September 2025
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Scottsdale, Arizona · one day

Friday 26 September 2025

14 drone flights from Scottsdale Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over Scottsdale that day.

2:25 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Scottsdale police drones flew 14 times on Friday 26 September 2025, the first at 2:25 pm and the last at 11:58 pm MST, by Scottsdale Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Not stated64%
  2. Other36%

Flights, in order

14 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
2:25 pmNot stated14 minSPD-2509
2:42 pmNot stated25 minSPD-2509
3:11 pmNot stated5 minSPD-2509
5:13 pmNot stated6 minSPD-2509
5:25 pmNot stated17 minSPD-2509
5:51 pmNot stated10 minSPD-2509
7:10 pmOther24 minSPD-2509
7:40 pmNot stated20 minSPD-2509
9:41 pmNot stated23 minSPD-2509
10:07 pmNot stated22 minSPD-2509
10:52 pmOther13 minSPD-2509
11:07 pmOther15 minSPD-2509
11:30 pmOther26 minSPD-2509
11:58 pmOther21 minSPD-2509

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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