5
drone flights over Sacramento that day.
4:28 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:12 pm.
—
durations not published in this record.
Sacramento police drones flew 5 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 4:28 am and the last at 6:12 pm PDT, by Sacramento 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:28 am | Other | — | b0ca42e6 |
| 6:56 am | Other | — | 1de8a949 |
| 7:15 am | Other | — | 37ee3d9f |
| 5:50 pm | Other | — | 9365754e |
| 6:12 pm | Other | — | c085cba0 |
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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