13
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
4:24 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:23 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 4:24 am and the last at 7:23 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; 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:24 am | Call for service | 13 min | 4d2c855d |
| 9:57 am | Call for service | 13 min | bb7c3697 |
| 1:12 pm | Other | 9 min | 0dcc6002 |
| 1:31 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 81dcde5b |
| 3:01 pm | Call for service | 13 min | d303e37e |
| 3:42 pm | Call for service | 16 min | dbbce222 |
| 3:53 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 97f09606 |
| 4:35 pm | Call for service | 15 min | aec30320 |
| 5:23 pm | Other | 14 min | 55d503b7 |
| 5:45 pm | Other | 5 min | 9fab853b |
| 7:23 pm | Call for service | 16 min | ae038925 |
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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