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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 9 April 2026

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

18

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 9 April 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

16 flights with a published block-level point of 18. 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 service78%
  2. Other22%

Flights, in order

18 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
—Call for service20 min2fd322df
—Call for service11 min33f963dc
—Call for service12 min3839f316
—Call for service8 min39486f0e
—Call for service8 min45c21652
—Other3 min64b70c85
—Call for service41 min7dd1cfd2
—Other6 min83a88546
—Call for service11 min91e44235
—Call for service7 minaf526cba
—Call for service9 minb2845fdd
—Other10 minb6ec257a
—Call for service20 minb9892c8d
—Call for service25 minc229a069
—Call for service4 minc950c3cd
—Call for service8 minc9ecc831
—Call for service19 minf0044f8d
—Other6 minffeceafc

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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