7
drone flights over Tampa that day.
6:16 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:37 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 7 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 6:16 pm and the last at 11:37 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
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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:16 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 6f4e0fac |
| 7:48 pm | Traffic and crashes | 11 min | bde7c9c4 |
| 8:13 pm | Search | 17 min | bcfbf9ba |
| 9:49 pm | Traffic and crashes | 13 min | 04609c5c |
| 10:07 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 60d996a3 |
| 10:52 pm | Call for service | 11 min | a8ecf8b3 |
| 11:37 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 23ed105e |
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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