16
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
1:30 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 7 October 2026, the first at 1:30 pm and the last at 11:50 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
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:30 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 0a752f9d |
| 2:38 pm | Call for service | 9 min | eec5a8e4 |
| 3:31 pm | Call for service | 4 min | c7723505 |
| 3:53 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 42a69c1b |
| 4:08 pm | Call for service | 10 min | cff11be0 |
| 5:17 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 3440cdad |
| 5:32 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 346591b8 |
| 5:45 pm | Call for service | 20 min | bd40e5a1 |
| 5:55 pm | Call for service | 6 min | d7db50c7 |
| 7:34 pm | Call for service | 4 min | 61460bff |
| 7:41 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 1a923da4 |
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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