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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 19 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 26 times on Wednesday 19 August 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

25 flights with a published block-level point of 26. 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 service88%
  2. Other12%

Flights, in order

26 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 service9 min08700cdf
—Call for service7 min0ced4c48
—Other1 min 00 s20173970
—Other1 min 00 s25d085fd
—Call for service1 min 00 s2626a8d1
—Call for service4 min34ad183b
—Call for service13 min39855a4d
—Call for service6 min495a90e4
—Call for service12 min4b0bc54f
—Call for service6 min599efdf1
—Call for service15 min60e540d7
—Call for service11 min7f03eacd
—Call for service2 min856e2dcc
—Other1 min 00 s9446521b
—Call for service20 min9585b124
—Call for service9 min9749c33c
—Call for service16 mina9920022
—Call for service12 minb278c80e
—Call for service6 minbf4898fc
—Call for service15 minc5318e44
—Call for service4 minca0678d5
—Call for service11 mincdb1f921
—Call for service6 mind7e7fc60
—Call for service5 minf39e83e0
—Call for service9 minfc192238
—Call for service31 minffc0d2ff

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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