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  4. May 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Sunday 17 May 2026

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

19

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 19 times on Sunday 17 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

19 flights with a published block-level point of 19. 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 service100%

Flights, in order

19 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 service13 min0b350abd
—Call for service13 min0ed63b33
—Call for service14 min0f617956
—Call for service20 min1d7cb259
—Call for service14 min24cb65d1
—Call for service12 min3d872144
—Call for service16 min3f00b95e
—Call for service5 min603275cd
—Call for service6 min68235d58
—Call for service22 min7fa1cae8
—Call for service20 min95bf5964
—Call for service19 min96734228
—Call for service9 minab0b63a4
—Call for service2 minb13dea74
—Call for service3 minbda6a32c
—Call for service11 minc2ebc057
—Call for service5 mincc6dcef5
—Call for service11 minf95cfa90
—Call for service13 minfd9474a7

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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