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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 26 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

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

24 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 service92%
  2. Other8%

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 service8 min0b0ecf45
—Call for service12 min1fa3c629
—Other17 min38f955ed
—Call for service10 min4cf5e101
—Call for service8 min589d66e4
—Call for service13 min5ca345f3
—Call for service16 min72a8e7a9
—Call for service6 min750bac65
—Call for service10 min7852895f
—Call for service5 min7cb229c4
—Call for service15 min8c287354
—Call for service18 min8dfeda06
—Call for service16 min990643c2
—Other18 mina90ac6b1
—Call for service15 mina9dcf47c
—Call for service14 minab62266c
—Call for service11 minb918341c
—Call for service18 minbe8708c4
—Call for service6 mind103f9cb
—Call for service10 minde5b34d5
—Call for service12 mine73dd561
—Call for service9 mineb9cabd8
—Call for service15 minf0f00eaf
—Call for service14 minf217d462
—Call for service22 minf4a51aea
—Call for service10 minfced5819

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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