9
drone flights over San Rafael that day.
6:42 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:50 pm.
3 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Rafael police drones flew 9 times on Sunday 3 May 2026, the first at 6:42 am and the last at 3:50 pm PDT, by San Rafael 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:42 am | Other | 23 min | SRPD-260 |
| 7:18 am | Not stated | 1 min 00 s | SRPD-260 |
| 7:41 am | Training and testing | 3 min | SRPD-260 |
| 7:48 am | Not stated | 1 min 06 s | SRPD-260 |
| 9:12 am | Other | 6 min | SRPD-260 |
| 9:13 am | Not stated | 1 min 06 s | SRPD-260 |
| 10:52 am | Training and testing | 4 min | SRPD-260 |
| 10:57 am | Training and testing | 2 min | SRPD-260 |
| 3:50 pm | Other | 11 min | SRPD-260 |
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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