8
drone flights over Tampa that day.
12:15 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:57 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 15 April 2026, the first at 12:15 am and the last at 9:57 pm EDT, by Tampa Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15 am | Traffic and crashes | 20 min | 6957423b |
| 5:19 pm | Call for service | 10 min | d6e97154 |
| 5:30 pm | Not stated | 15 min | 8c90d7a8 |
| 6:28 pm | Call for service | 17 min | d0985257 |
| 6:56 pm | Call for service | 9 min | e951c8fb |
| 8:02 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 02fd1ef2 |
| 9:35 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 310e0967 |
| 9:57 pm | Traffic and crashes | 14 min | 78ac88a0 |
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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