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  4. May 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 28 May 2026

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

29

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 29 times on Thursday 28 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

26 flights with a published block-level point of 29. 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 service90%
  2. Other10%

Flights, in order

29 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 min18d6e17a
—Call for service4 min1f53df2a
—Call for service17 min24115eb6
—Call for service20 min35918b82
—Call for service20 min45b4f1f7
—Call for service6 min4b3e1e71
—Other15 min54e01119
—Call for service18 min593d3d4b
—Call for service8 min596aeb77
—Call for service6 min5a8f27f9
—Call for service7 min5d18a686
—Call for service7 min6a777e45
—Call for service6 min7b25c986
—Call for service10 min7c70513e
—Call for service20 min7cf6ade4
—Call for service18 min8d2bc3e5
—Call for service20 min9b3c73a2
—Call for service10 mina4e458a6
—Call for service18 mina5854709
—Call for service21 mina9fd0e86
—Other3 minb3a9f66e
—Call for service18 minb5d14b8a
—Call for service13 minba9cdf6f
—Other1 min 00 sbef476cc
—Call for service13 mine27f6d9c
—Call for service4 minec2b41a2
—Call for service9 minf825c1ca
—Call for service17 minf8c2a9f1
—Call for service5 minfb66f1dd

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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