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  4. May 2026
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Chula Vista, California · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

33

drone flights over Chula Vista that day.

2:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:09 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chula Vista police drones flew 33 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 2:44 am and the last at 11:09 pm PDT, by Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

32 flights with a published block-level point of 33. 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. Other39%
  2. Call for service33%
  3. Not stated12%
  4. Training and testing9%
  5. Traffic and crashes6%

Flights, in order

33 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
2:44 amOther—a926fff3
7:23 amCall for service—011801cd
7:29 amCall for service—f0a28506
8:09 amCall for service—50ae972b
9:13 amCall for service—992eb7f8
9:55 amOther—07a46e63
11:03 amCall for service—5d1e8c0d
11:36 amOther—83521b71
12:08 pmOther—056c0259
12:17 pmNot stated—0745ed8e
12:39 pmOther—044d9f4c
12:51 pmCall for service—555ccffc
1:41 pmNot stated—81f0ede8
1:41 pmOther—890d7a98
1:53 pmNot stated—dc18483f
1:54 pmOther—09577855
1:59 pmCall for service—fb51b05c
2:08 pmTraffic and crashes—115d4b3a
2:20 pmCall for service—6b60e78a
2:42 pmTraffic and crashes—3a0a9d12
2:49 pmCall for service—4b972947
3:49 pmOther—65531c72
3:53 pmNot stated—9a0c8989
5:27 pmCall for service—747f5381
6:46 pmOther—d1092d78
7:09 pmOther—b36d521f
7:26 pmTraining and testing—39216854
7:58 pmTraining and testing—00305391
8:05 pmCall for service—1618b5ee
8:54 pmTraining and testing—f1f612fe
9:06 pmOther—cf2759ac
9:59 pmOther—9ca1d270
11:09 pmOther—b3d1c7fb

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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