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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 7 August 2026

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

21

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 21 times on Friday 7 August 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

20 flights with a published block-level point of 21. 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 service76%
  2. Other24%

Flights, in order

21 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 service4 min09205187
—Other4 min0e52ebc9
—Call for service1 min 00 s0fdc30a5
—Call for service9 min14dd95ef
—Call for service9 min18abf01f
—Other15 min211c95bf
—Call for service9 min25efd054
—Other2 min286daac6
—Call for service2 min2cc2ca3b
—Other6 min3a05956c
—Call for service11 min3b7e57e8
—Call for service7 min5bebb295
—Call for service11 min61338d1b
—Call for service18 min6fe24168
—Call for service15 min8ad4e6e4
—Call for service7 min9ffb2067
—Other7 minaf0bfac1
—Call for service22 minc2fdf52b
—Call for service9 minded564ba
—Call for service4 mine03ed2bf
—Call for service8 mine3a43894

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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