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  4. April 2026
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Riverside County, California · one day

Thursday 16 April 2026

37 drone flights from Riverside County Sheriff's Office's published record.

37

drone flights over Riverside County that day.

12:14 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:37 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Riverside County police drones flew 37 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 12:14 am and the last at 10:37 pm PDT, by Riverside County Sheriff's Office's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

37 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
12:14 amNot stated10 minRCSO-260
10:23 amNot stated2 minRCSO-260
11:08 amNot stated4 minRCSO-260
11:14 amNot stated17 minRCSO-260
11:32 amNot stated18 minRCSO-260
12:22 pmNot stated7 minRCSO-260
2:19 pmNot stated25 minRCSO-260
2:37 pmNot stated26 minRCSO-260
2:52 pmNot stated19 minRCSO-260
3:17 pmNot stated25 minRCSO-260
3:49 pmNot stated23 minRCSO-260
3:55 pmNot stated14 minRCSO-260
4:10 pmNot stated22 minRCSO-260
4:15 pmNot stated26 minRCSO-260
4:38 pmNot stated6 minRCSO-260
4:42 pmNot stated23 minRCSO-260
4:42 pmNot stated18 minRCSO-260
4:45 pmNot stated4 minRCSO-260
5:08 pmNot stated27 minRCSO-260
5:09 pmNot stated4 minRCSO-260
5:36 pmNot stated29 minRCSO-260
5:48 pmNot stated17 minRCSO-260
6:05 pmNot stated29 minRCSO-260
6:07 pmNot stated23 minRCSO-260
6:21 pmNot stated17 minRCSO-260
6:31 pmNot stated19 minRCSO-260
6:52 pmNot stated20 minRCSO-260
7:12 pmNot stated25 minRCSO-260
7:46 pmNot stated22 minRCSO-260
8:09 pmNot stated23 minRCSO-260
8:34 pmNot stated25 minRCSO-260
9:03 pmNot stated50 minRCSO-260
9:33 pmNot stated18 sRCSO-260
9:34 pmNot stated14 minRCSO-260
10:02 pmNot stated20 minRCSO-260
10:17 pmNot stated19 minRCSO-260
10:37 pmNot stated17 minRCSO-260

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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