8
drone flights over Lancaster that day.
4:49 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:57 pm.
—
durations not published in this record.
Lancaster police drones flew 8 times on Friday 2 October 2026, the first at 4:49 pm and the last at 11:57 pm PDT, by Lancaster Police Department's published record.
One flight, at its published block
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:49 pm | Not stated | — | a7dfea2f |
| 5:43 pm | Not stated | — | 6a4c757a |
| 6:26 pm | Not stated | — | 2dfcf4cc |
| 7:23 pm | Not stated | — | 9ded3670 |
| 7:47 pm | Not stated | — | 7c842111 |
| 10:44 pm | Not stated | — | f7bb2d5c |
| 11:09 pm | Not stated | — | 1fa2651f |
| 11:57 pm | Not stated | — | 1f1188a9 |
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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