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  4. September 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 23 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 37 times on Wednesday 23 September 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

36 flights with a published block-level point of 37. 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 service100%

Flights, in order

37 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 service5 min046254a0
—Call for service4 min04ed6351
—Call for service15 min13c540b5
—Call for service13 min170c7c1d
—Call for service13 min17b19b54
—Call for service4 min1b20dbfe
—Call for service12 min1bd3b29a
—Call for service8 min1e669060
—Call for service4 min24a919e1
—Call for service8 min24d161b7
—Call for service18 min27f3d486
—Call for service19 min2abc07d1
—Call for service8 min2d90b819
—Call for service15 min304ea9e9
—Call for service20 min4525b1d5
—Call for service9 min68374adc
—Call for service12 min6f54ec1a
—Call for service6 min7f5c120b
—Call for service13 min81896069
—Call for service4 min83ab6078
—Call for service11 min8acb946f
—Call for service6 min8f29e55b
—Call for service4 min9427d2b9
—Call for service15 min9c9e40bd
—Call for service12 mina1f3fb59
—Call for service7 minab53f886
—Call for service12 minb56e368f
—Call for service2 minc1a7c216
—Call for service17 minc2997ca7
—Call for service15 minc9e8752c
—Call for service4 minca1996f4
—Call for service7 minca4dd0f1
—Call for service7 mind67d833f
—Call for service10 minda92bbc3
—Call for service19 mine68d336e
—Call for service16 mine81dba3e
—Call for service6 minfa065406

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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