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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 6 May 2026

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

30

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 30 times on Wednesday 6 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

29 flights with a published block-level point of 30. 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 service83%
  2. Other17%

Flights, in order

30 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 service8 min05de5506
—Call for service12 min0a4e114e
—Call for service11 min1192d8f9
—Other16 min1742508b
—Call for service20 min27ae7f83
—Call for service13 min2b89e0ed
—Call for service4 min35b45aab
—Call for service102 min5291a03b
—Call for service11 min54dd8f44
—Other3 min57beee9a
—Call for service27 min58d62f6e
—Other15 min61f355cd
—Call for service16 min642df409
—Call for service15 min6682020c
—Call for service25 min73d2b2e1
—Other7 min81141edb
—Call for service13 min8b41a1d5
—Call for service20 min8f7f1f77
—Call for service6 min981d561f
—Call for service12 min9919d524
—Call for service11 mina7dad7b0
—Call for service15 minb29503d9
—Call for service6 minc1503fac
—Call for service14 minc1ccf6fc
—Call for service8 minc3ac809b
—Call for service10 mind0fbb528
—Other11 minda96b9b7
—Call for service16 minde118560
—Call for service25 minec3a2a13
—Call for service10 minf909d2a3

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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