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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 15 May 2026

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

16

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 16 times on Friday 15 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 16. 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 service81%
  2. Other19%

Flights, in order

16 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 service6 min027e90f2
—Call for service6 min07ba1c94
—Call for service10 min2811954b
—Call for service9 min3d9085ee
—Call for service14 min4084d781
—Call for service12 min456d4aaa
—Call for service7 min46a190d3
—Other9 min752d67dc
—Other4 min94f548af
—Call for service6 min97c8a64b
—Call for service7 minbed333e7
—Call for service12 minbf75fce1
—Call for service16 minc1c6a0f2
—Call for service14 mincf0ea6b8
—Call for service24 mincfcaecd3
—Other12 minf9b68735

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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