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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 20 May 2026

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

44

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 44 times on Wednesday 20 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

43 flights with a published block-level point of 44. 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

44 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
—Other2 min01b0011e
—Call for service6 min075fb6ab
—Call for service5 min1a340bfc
—Call for service19 min306582bc
—Call for service13 min314dc069
—Call for service18 min343f1bfc
—Call for service7 min35add5ba
—Call for service6 min39e70d8a
—Call for service18 min3e243758
—Call for service19 min489c366b
—Call for service7 min49686457
—Call for service5 min519fae0b
—Call for service19 min5c32b63c
—Call for service20 min6aa74cd5
—Call for service8 min71a069c2
—Call for service15 min839d16c9
—Other6 min87240f9c
—Call for service17 min8fbc03f4
—Call for service24 min96f2afd7
—Call for service6 min977e9353
—Call for service14 min9adbf921
—Call for service21 min9bada89a
—Call for service8 min9c818c58
—Call for service17 mina333aef2
—Call for service24 mina51c353b
—Call for service13 mina60369cc
—Call for service9 minaa8c6067
—Call for service16 minad4d03d8
—Other6 minb15db7cc
—Call for service28 minb5b49515
—Call for service11 minb747a7c5
—Call for service10 minbefa7bf5
—Other3 minc1d0f96d
—Call for service13 minc54e929a
—Call for service14 minc83aad0c
—Other26 mincc0093b9
—Call for service20 mind0803935
—Other4 mindb0ac889
—Call for service17 mine2ab2705
—Call for service15 minede42abb
—Call for service16 minf965c2a4
—Call for service16 minfd4703de
—Other11 minfd89c1fe
—Call for service18 minfde90a3e

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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