9
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
11:52 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:16 pm.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 27 October 2026, the first at 11:52 am and the last at 8:16 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
8 listable flights; 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:52 am | Call for service | 12 min | 7f38a732 |
| 12:02 pm | Call for service | 4 min | d63e9d87 |
| 1:00 pm | Other | 9 min | f78444b6 |
| 3:55 pm | Other | 8 min | 6cf1f8b1 |
| 5:14 pm | Call for service | 12 min | fce8e424 |
| 5:20 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 0dbd3082 |
| 6:20 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 2691f438 |
| 8:16 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 9f7ae27d |
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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