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  4. April 2026
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Chico, California · one day

Friday 24 April 2026

20 drone flights from Chico Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Chico that day.

1:03 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 2:55 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chico police drones flew 20 times on Friday 24 April 2026, the first at 1:03 pm and the last at 2:55 pm PDT, by Chico Police Department's published record.

20 flights with a published block-level point of 20. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

20 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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:03 pmNot stated—d997d315
1:06 pmNot stated—edce055d
1:09 pmNot stated—ec92d228
1:10 pmNot stated—f2b6d617
1:22 pmNot stated—516ddb4a
1:23 pmNot stated—7672b301
1:31 pmNot stated—1fdb820a
1:36 pmNot stated—caa393ab
1:37 pmNot stated—c834e071
1:38 pmNot stated—c89cbb7f
2:02 pmNot stated—a5ed08d5
2:05 pmNot stated—8b35ac10
2:11 pmNot stated—a7c51560
2:23 pmNot stated—a7570573
2:24 pmNot stated—13316acb
2:34 pmNot stated—da9d3ae4
2:41 pmNot stated—29d48116
2:42 pmNot stated—05ceda36
2:45 pmNot stated—00995002
2:55 pmNot stated—36af4a92

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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