9
drone flights over Tampa that day.
5:52 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 9 times on Friday 24 April 2026, the first at 5:52 pm and the last at 11:33 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:52 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 5c10b072 |
| 6:18 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 1d9ccacf |
| 6:52 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 0bc9cfa6 |
| 7:15 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 3413e9c0 |
| 7:52 pm | Traffic and crashes | 15 min | d5a4d984 |
| 8:56 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 6719aeff |
| 10:20 pm | Traffic and crashes | 14 min | a78171cd |
| 10:59 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 4b002782 |
| 11:33 pm | Call for service | 20 min | a53c8045 |
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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