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  4. May 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

50

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 50 times on Friday 8 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

49 flights with a published block-level point of 50. 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 service84%
  2. Other16%

Flights, in order

50 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 service17 min01a59eef
—Call for service18 min0a2977b3
—Call for service21 min0f567c14
—Call for service8 min110541cc
—Call for service24 min15a03bc8
—Call for service15 min1b47e689
—Call for service9 min1c8742dd
—Call for service20 min1e5020c7
—Call for service8 min1e8d3d91
—Call for service20 min239527ca
—Call for service13 min245c5c40
—Call for service16 min246da2e3
—Call for service5 min2b5d2a9d
—Call for service10 min2ec13c7c
—Other5 min3243d275
—Call for service7 min3297b493
—Call for service8 min40594d40
—Other4 min4864765a
—Call for service10 min4aa39b51
—Call for service15 min4ba9b29d
—Call for service17 min5aaf1e42
—Call for service15 min66787adf
—Call for service6 min6bcf33c9
—Call for service10 min714efead
—Call for service12 min71b09b63
—Other4 min720d01e6
—Call for service18 min75f467c1
—Call for service16 min7e07b0a7
—Other3 min7fa22596
—Other1 min 00 s80170c9c
—Call for service17 min85660f78
—Call for service5 min86f26aa5
—Call for service18 min87bac671
—Call for service5 min8802ad8f
—Call for service11 min9170f337
—Call for service8 min91d8722c
—Call for service11 min9de871ae
—Call for service10 mina41a21b8
—Call for service17 mina48aef67
—Call for service30 mina7b5c18c
—Other5 minb2b70d7b
—Call for service18 minb2ce8ee2
—Call for service9 minc06aa17d
—Call for service28 minc6331a0c
—Other8 mincc61ffb8
—Other17 mind47d103e
—Call for service14 mindb0691cd
—Call for service6 mine20b5d42
—Call for service11 mineb0a9ea8
—Call for service26 minee53523a

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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