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  4. January 2026
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Chula Vista, California · one day

Friday 16 January 2026

14 drone flights from Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over Chula Vista that day.

2:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:05 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chula Vista police drones flew 14 times on Friday 16 January 2026, the first at 2:55 am and the last at 11:05 pm PST, by Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 14. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service79%
  2. Other14%
  3. Traffic and crashes7%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:55 amCall for service—51aea6c6
8:35 amCall for service—2f3a31d1
9:17 amOther—08e31c2b
11:34 amCall for service—71078cda
12:33 pmCall for service—91d93c11
1:39 pmCall for service—8bc53e69
2:00 pmCall for service—cd91c2df
4:20 pmCall for service—53d00aa6
4:37 pmOther—df64ab11
7:00 pmTraffic and crashes—f9efa4ee
8:24 pmCall for service—870e59d6
8:54 pmCall for service—b463780d
10:02 pmCall for service—48b80e1e
11:05 pmCall for service—526709d9

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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