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  4. May 2026
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Chula Vista, California · one day

Saturday 16 May 2026

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

19

drone flights over Chula Vista that day.

3:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:41 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chula Vista police drones flew 19 times on Saturday 16 May 2026, the first at 3:23 am and the last at 11:41 pm PDT, by Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

16 flights with a published block-level point of 19. 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. Other47%
  2. Call for service37%
  3. Not stated11%
  4. Traffic and crashes5%

Flights, in order

19 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
3:23 amNot stated—1d1fdf64
7:31 amCall for service—48a7cd7b
8:16 amOther—92b7f636
9:58 amNot stated—b8868439
10:47 amOther—8a8c4f64
12:06 pmCall for service—b1050901
12:16 pmOther—74c7bdf0
12:44 pmCall for service—c1ea39a7
1:07 pmCall for service—b0567783
3:23 pmTraffic and crashes—990f72fd
3:51 pmOther—2eb22f03
4:13 pmOther—7efc7b46
5:56 pmOther—fc5f5139
6:19 pmCall for service—9e20b929
6:56 pmCall for service—a83eb8d4
7:31 pmCall for service—d4be1f99
8:08 pmOther—7a59a680
9:20 pmOther—d4af7f1b
11:41 pmOther—f767c767

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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