drone flights over San Rafael that day.

10:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 12:08 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Rafael police drones flew 4 times on Sunday 11 October 2026, the first at 10:37 am and the last at 12:08 pm PDT, by San Rafael Police Department's published record.

4 drawable flights of 4. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

Other100%

Flights, in order

4 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
10:37 am	Other	15 min	SRPD-261
11:01 am	Other	6 min	SRPD-261
11:09 am	Other	27 min	SRPD-261
12:08 pm	Other	4 min	SRPD-261

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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