8
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
7:46 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:37 pm.
22 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 23 September 2026, the first at 7:46 pm and the last at 10:37 pm PDT, by San Mateo Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:46 pm | Not stated | 5 min | 41f37bb0 |
| 7:54 pm | Not stated | 1 min 53 s | 14cbee00 |
| 8:05 pm | Not stated | 3 min | 583c509d |
| 8:37 pm | Not stated | 23 min | eee9bb83 |
| 9:03 pm | Not stated | 23 min | 7e5b067d |
| 9:38 pm | Not stated | 22 min | fd7bad75 |
| 10:02 pm | Not stated | 26 min | 7a064991 |
| 10:37 pm | Not stated | 22 min | ba50c7fe |
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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