16
drone flights over San Mateo that day.
12:10 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 7:39 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Mateo police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 28 October 2026, the first at 12:10 pm and the last at 7:39 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
9 listable flights; 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30 pm | Call for service | 9 min | ddb7f237 |
| 12:55 pm | Other | 5 min | 38c9b90d |
| 1:54 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 62cca23f |
| 2:37 pm | Other | 8 min | 8101f812 |
| 4:35 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 248903c3 |
| 4:43 pm | Other | 16 min | 32f318b2 |
| 6:43 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 1ed659ca |
| 6:55 pm | Other | 1 min 34 s | b7de11cf |
| 7:39 pm | Other | 6 min | 2d94fd81 |
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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