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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 24 September 2026

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

49

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 49 times on Thursday 24 September 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

49 flights with a published block-level point of 49. 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 service98%
  2. Other2%

Flights, in order

49 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 min04da42e7
—Call for service6 min0d17c225
—Call for service8 min0fe627f1
—Call for service16 min134efb9a
—Call for service13 min1d1d3744
—Call for service3 min20dd52ca
—Call for service7 min27f57fc6
—Call for service7 min2b50fba7
—Call for service4 min3111a2fe
—Call for service17 min32121dd4
—Call for service4 min339d6140
—Call for service4 min3e7f77d9
—Call for service15 min4108043e
—Call for service15 min4153a034
—Call for service21 min47d5ce0d
—Call for service9 min4b9f1fda
—Call for service9 min4e2ca8d4
—Call for service10 min51acc93a
—Call for service7 min571d0df3
—Call for service17 min6821eebf
—Call for service8 min68e441da
—Call for service5 min746be19c
—Call for service6 min7d0eb533
—Call for service7 min7d50f118
—Call for service17 min88339ab0
—Call for service16 min8bc3108a
—Call for service20 min8c448365
—Call for service14 min91e62b28
—Call for service5 minaac203cc
—Call for service9 minac426c58
—Call for service13 minac71300c
—Call for service15 minb496e11e
—Call for service10 minb96bedf6
—Call for service12 minbbfb4aa4
—Call for service6 minc236a57b
—Call for service6 mincea694b1
—Call for service7 mincfc2d277
—Call for service16 mind097a209
—Call for service9 mind45db28f
—Call for service9 mind4d3cfc8
—Call for service22 mind7d24df2
—Call for service2 mine29c09f2
—Call for service5 mine45f9c9c
—Call for service8 mine6165d9b
—Call for service10 minec8d1480
—Call for service20 minf161d15e
—Other5 minf33cceca
—Call for service13 minf6bd9284
—Call for service6 minf852d0cc

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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