23
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
10:54 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:08 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 23 times on Tuesday 6 October 2026, the first at 10:54 am and the last at 8:08 pm PDT, by San Mateo Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
18 listable flights; 5 with a sensitive stated purpose are counted above but not listed. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:34 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 65df2b82 |
| 1:03 pm | Other | 9 min | 96979f56 |
| 3:29 pm | Call for service | 5 min | a4122a96 |
| 3:49 pm | Other | 6 min | 244f79e5 |
| 5:33 pm | Call for service | 22 min | 0fd7ed7a |
| 5:51 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 7d141d2e |
| 5:58 pm | Call for service | 22 min | a59a357e |
| 6:16 pm | Call for service | 8 min | f1131535 |
| 6:23 pm | Call for service | 24 min | 98460bb0 |
| 6:41 pm | Call for service | 17 min | d6550737 |
| 6:51 pm | Call for service | 25 min | 75be5b44 |
| 7:10 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 3d0fa478 |
| 7:18 pm | Call for service | 21 min | bf16f8bd |
| 7:35 pm | Call for service | 11 min | ded97bdd |
| 7:41 pm | Call for service | 23 min | c82bbe25 |
| 7:59 pm | Other | 3 min | 110663ad |
| 8:00 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 430498cd |
| 8:08 pm | Call for service | 14 min | d0b3f447 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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