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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 30 April 2026

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

42

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 42 times on Thursday 30 April 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

41 flights with a published block-level point of 42. 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 service95%
  2. Other5%

Flights, in order

42 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
—Other10 min0b63b81b
—Call for service20 min0e253793
—Call for service8 min12502b27
—Call for service6 min13de589e
—Call for service10 min177f703e
—Call for service19 min21770929
—Call for service20 min21bf4e97
—Call for service12 min248787f3
—Call for service21 min300dbcc7
—Call for service15 min3b294dac
—Call for service23 min3ed08c65
—Call for service16 min414f1658
—Call for service13 min42c94185
—Call for service21 min5c73ebf7
—Call for service5 min652961b4
—Call for service21 min6b8559ba
—Call for service22 min6fd198d6
—Call for service22 min785b043b
—Call for service17 min78bede36
—Call for service22 min7cb4e9d9
—Call for service17 min81befea4
—Call for service23 min90862d08
—Call for service23 min9fd187b0
—Call for service21 mina06d0e06
—Call for service12 mina6013090
—Call for service13 minb0299811
—Call for service20 minb0b18c3d
—Call for service7 minb0ecfbef
—Call for service13 minb7d90172
—Call for service13 minb9a5cd72
—Call for service19 minbfbca54a
—Call for service7 minc5924246
—Call for service10 mincdf270ee
—Call for service9 mind075e0fe
—Call for service13 mind19e6e59
—Call for service5 mind2617ab0
—Call for service20 mind9c17ee3
—Call for service10 mindfd66e58
—Other18 mine4562b86
—Call for service21 minf9732e79
—Call for service11 minfbb8eab2
—Call for service9 minfd9d34c7

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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