7
drone flights over Tucson that day.
10:12 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:43 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tucson police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 2 April 2026, the first at 10:12 am and the last at 6:43 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:12 am | Call for service | 18 min | b284e47d |
| 10:44 am | Call for service | 13 min | 06cd2813 |
| 11:58 am | Training and testing | 16 min | e5dab8b6 |
| 2:15 pm | Call for service | 11 min | b9fa9ef5 |
| 3:03 pm | Training and testing | 15 min | d865478e |
| 4:26 pm | Training and testing | 17 min | d97f4a68 |
| 6:43 pm | Call for service | 4 min | 1c9e5d9d |
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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