6
drone flights over Tucson that day.
10:50 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:30 pm.
21 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tucson police drones flew 6 times on Tuesday 31 March 2026, the first at 10:50 am and the last at 5:30 pm MST, by University of Arizona - Real Time Coordination Center's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:50 am | Call for service | 21 min | 6ecab551 |
| 12:42 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 59087bf8 |
| 1:54 pm | Call for service | 23 min | 7e5f27c8 |
| 2:29 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 0395a2be |
| 2:56 pm | Call for service | 22 min | 20a3695e |
| 5:30 pm | Call for service | 9 min | d2de1f3f |
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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