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  4. May 2026
  5. 9

San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 9 May 2026

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

27

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 27 times on Saturday 9 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

27 flights with a published block-level point of 27. 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 service89%
  2. Other11%

Flights, in order

27 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 min04c936e9
—Call for service16 min103add05
—Call for service2 min200cdb5a
—Call for service8 min2a1ad93c
—Call for service17 min418d65f4
—Call for service12 min5099968a
—Other7 min518b601c
—Call for service19 min531458db
—Call for service11 min5726c2f2
—Other2 min5a9be4cc
—Call for service16 min5f2aa08d
—Call for service12 min699faff3
—Call for service9 min705ddd60
—Call for service13 min7c481d37
—Call for service10 min85a1b836
—Call for service7 min8da44021
—Call for service6 min8f3fd3ae
—Call for service20 min9b256aee
—Call for service9 mina5be381d
—Call for service11 mina6e88e33
—Call for service9 minacbce5ee
—Other3 minadf43648
—Call for service7 minb03d53d5
—Call for service18 minbcf23571
—Call for service7 minbd852059
—Call for service17 minefd122e5
—Call for service16 minf76e9315

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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