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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 16 September 2026

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

88

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 88 times on Wednesday 16 September 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

85 flights with a published block-level point of 88. 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 service80%
  2. Other20%

Flights, in order

88 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 min02fcaf08
—Other1 min 00 s04509bc0
—Call for service3 min051f774b
—Call for service13 min05c26996
—Other6 min07c571da
—Call for service8 min094633ec
—Call for service14 min0be104c3
—Call for service13 min0c1751f3
—Call for service14 min144f741e
—Call for service15 min14eeea03
—Call for service10 min19c08591
—Call for service9 min1a0ee19b
—Call for service7 min1bf40b0d
—Call for service15 min1cb4df8a
—Call for service10 min1e561b57
—Call for service16 min1f3a1410
—Call for service16 min201b6a64
—Call for service4 min212e881f
—Call for service9 min2380d31e
—Call for service8 min238d7415
—Other6 min261221c7
—Call for service10 min29352eed
—Call for service22 min2de0911d
—Other7 min2edac0da
—Call for service31 min35434836
—Other11 min374f851b
—Call for service9 min3a3f12d7
—Call for service5 min3c6965b7
—Call for service9 min467eec1d
—Call for service25 min48974046
—Call for service8 min4a462577
—Call for service13 min4e4beae6
—Call for service11 min4ec7662f
—Other7 min54a75ef6
—Other6 min5574ff55
—Other9 min56a73e74
—Call for service8 min57ddf5f0
—Call for service10 min5a6b63cd
—Call for service8 min6190dfe8
—Call for service10 min65b0f10a
—Call for service9 min68552e10
—Call for service8 min68a04f64
—Call for service4 min72cd5c8c
—Call for service14 min7ab6edd3
—Call for service4 min813b07d1
—Call for service7 min897b304d
—Call for service4 min89cc83e2
—Other6 min8a23e1be
—Call for service25 min91209201
—Call for service26 min915a5d5b
—Call for service8 min925e5cc2
—Call for service11 min9382c761
—Call for service14 min989a475f
—Other1 min 00 sa1f4fac6
—Call for service29 mina7ffd9e1
—Other5 minaa3a21c7
—Call for service7 minb2e851b0
—Other6 minb4667868
—Call for service9 minb4966174
—Call for service12 minbabf1bf4
—Call for service25 minbbab796d
—Call for service9 minbfee9be7
—Call for service10 minc030c33b
—Other5 minc2dab673
—Call for service9 minc3f5001d
—Call for service8 minc6fe533f
—Other2 minc9bf95e1
—Call for service14 mind3d954c6
—Call for service5 mind4457054
—Call for service10 mind511cd61
—Call for service18 mind6bdedbf
—Other2 mind9af9ae5
—Other2 mindaa86f22
—Call for service10 mindc116182
—Call for service6 mine17f9ad1
—Call for service14 mine26781da
—Call for service18 mine42fadf1
—Call for service6 mine57f825d
—Other2 mine63a4a29
—Call for service18 mine6e9a859
—Call for service11 mine8e75337
—Call for service12 minec0d74c2
—Other11 mined17bc25
—Call for service9 minee0180a3
—Call for service18 minf3e5d3ef
—Call for service10 minfb44c853
—Call for service14 minfb9b080c
—Call for service14 minff102f68

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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