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  4. September 2026
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Elk Grove, California · one day

Friday 18 September 2026

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

12

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

12:15 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 7:03 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 12 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 12:15 pm and the last at 7:03 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other100%

Flights, in order

12 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
12:15 pmOther8 minEGPD-260
2:04 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
3:05 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
3:43 pmOther12 minEGPD-260
4:10 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
4:16 pmOther20 minEGPD-260
5:13 pmOther9 minEGPD-260
5:35 pmOther6 minEGPD-260
5:48 pmOther7 minEGPD-260
6:02 pmOther5 minEGPD-260
6:37 pmOther14 minEGPD-260
7:03 pmOther12 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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