7
drone flights over South San Francisco that day.
6:16 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:48 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
South San Francisco police drones flew 7 times on Tuesday 18 August 2026, the first at 6:16 am and the last at 10:48 pm PDT, by South San Francisco 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:16 am | Traffic and crashes | 16 min | 3e5a0ae7 |
| 9:01 am | Call for service | 10 min | 03ee2e99 |
| 12:27 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 4f9fa46b |
| 1:37 pm | Assisting another agency | 12 min | 836f1a1b |
| 2:12 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 472ab971 |
| 4:32 pm | Call for service | 4 min | a21b7e4f |
| 10:48 pm | Traffic and crashes | 9 min | 7600f75c |
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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