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  4. February 2026
  5. 26

Elk Grove, California · one day

Thursday 26 February 2026

16 drone flights from Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

16

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

10:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:40 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 16 times on Thursday 26 February 2026, the first at 10:47 am and the last at 10:40 pm PST, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other94%
  2. Not stated6%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:47 amNot stated2 minEGPD-260
1:28 pmOther15 minEGPD-260
1:46 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
2:17 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
4:15 pmOther10 minEGPD-260
4:36 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
4:51 pmOther21 minEGPD-260
5:49 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
6:07 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
7:12 pmOther18 minEGPD-260
8:08 pmOther4 minEGPD-260
8:43 pmOther3 minEGPD-260
9:03 pmOther17 minEGPD-260
9:52 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
10:20 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
10:40 pmOther16 minEGPD-260

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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