drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

11:22 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:51 pm.

2 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first at 11:22 am and the last at 6:51 pm PDT, by DFR and Rfd Platform (South San Francisco, CA)'s published record.

12 drawable flights of 13. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Not stated100%

Flights, in order

13 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
11:22 am	Not stated	3 min	`f663c521`
12:08 pm	Not stated	33 s	`9c33c72b`
12:10 pm	Not stated	1 min 04 s	`b9074808`
12:12 pm	Not stated	1 min 09 s	`b8e7bdfa`
12:15 pm	Not stated	38 s	`2e5f0810`
12:51 pm	Not stated	2 min	`643f180e`
2:02 pm	Not stated	4 min	`c76c1da7`
2:14 pm	Not stated	2 min	`f52760e8`
2:19 pm	Not stated	4 min	`ad87eee7`
2:41 pm	Not stated	2 min	`ba8b5220`
5:14 pm	Not stated	19 min	`07d5065e`
6:50 pm	Not stated	7 min	`6813aa34`
6:51 pm	Not stated	44 min	`b85717a1`

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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