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Chula Vista, California · one day

Sunday 16 August 2026

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

25

drone flights over Chula Vista that day.

8:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:45 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Chula Vista police drones flew 25 times on Sunday 16 August 2026, the first at 8:30 am and the last at 9:45 pm PDT, by Chula Vista Police Department's published record.

22 flights with a published block-level point of 25. 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 stated40%
  2. Other36%
  3. Call for service20%
  4. Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

25 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
8:30 amOther—b18efebb
9:33 amNot stated—6d52e41e
9:39 amNot stated—4633c27d
9:53 amNot stated—553a9fc9
9:53 amOther—c503998f
11:08 amNot stated—938b9137
11:11 amNot stated—3e130002
11:23 amOther—df513ba9
1:10 pmOther—f46dddc5
1:24 pmTraffic and crashes—2e7dafa7
2:02 pmOther—21ece2a2
2:17 pmNot stated—6554e4a4
2:17 pmOther—a8a1d002
2:36 pmOther—e67e103e
4:19 pmNot stated—1af024e5
4:19 pmCall for service—bb04e758
4:36 pmOther—bfe747f0
5:07 pmOther—1469089e
5:16 pmNot stated—e393a336
6:07 pmCall for service—640992cd
7:06 pmNot stated—9b1b4ef0
7:28 pmCall for service—e95fac3b
7:58 pmNot stated—4bf32ff6
7:58 pmCall for service—56f76540
9:45 pmCall for service—7a1d8cb8

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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