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  4. May 2026
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Chula Vista, California · one day

Thursday 7 May 2026

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

16

drone flights over Chula Vista that day.

9:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:37 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chula Vista police drones flew 16 times on Thursday 7 May 2026, the first at 9:11 am and the last at 6:37 pm PDT, by Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

16 flights with a published block-level point of 16. 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 stated38%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Other25%
  4. Traffic and crashes6%

Flights, in order

16 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
9:11 amOther—77ccfd21
9:40 amOther—c975304c
9:51 amCall for service—498b3f5f
10:42 amCall for service—13387441
10:57 amOther—ed50b80d
12:18 pmNot stated—4c0b20c3
12:22 pmNot stated—50623032
1:21 pmNot stated—c16a265e
2:02 pmCall for service—9b590930
2:19 pmCall for service—fe222e2f
3:56 pmCall for service—1e2aa713
3:56 pmNot stated—1e5d5531
4:44 pmNot stated—e3dcd8c2
4:45 pmTraffic and crashes—223080fd
6:37 pmOther—54864b35
6:37 pmNot stated—b17c29a2

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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