9
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
11:53 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:46 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 9 times on Monday 26 October 2026, the first at 11:53 am and the last at 6:46 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:53 am | Call for service | 6 min | 1d331fbe |
| 12:12 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 1bdec8f9 |
| 1:05 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 2e8f277b |
| 1:14 pm | Call for service | 4 min | 04862558 |
| 1:25 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 6bb31c31 |
| 2:14 pm | Call for service | 7 min | bd8fa0a1 |
| 4:13 pm | Other | 7 min | 6f6e1222 |
| 4:27 pm | Other | 11 min | 0d6e2ed0 |
| 6:46 pm | Call for service | 19 min | b05d0819 |
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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