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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 8 April 2026

20 drone flights from San Francisco Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 8 April 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

19 flights with a published block-level point of 20. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Times not published in this record.

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service65%
  2. Other35%

Flights, in order

20 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
—Other20 min0e23436a
—Other9 min1ec9b661
—Call for service13 min24df1cc8
—Call for service6 min28d699e2
—Call for service15 min386498ea
—Call for service6 min435d924a
—Call for service5 min5363b55d
—Other6 min564885ed
—Call for service10 min5c3adcef
—Call for service2 min60f2fe19
—Call for service18 min6d77ed64
—Call for service9 min91635f4a
—Other13 min926f51dc
—Call for service5 mina1b58d8f
—Call for service15 mincd16c97f
—Other1 min 00 scebed23f
—Call for service21 mincf2957c2
—Other2 mind01488de
—Other2 minda19f241
—Call for service13 mine40526cf

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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