8
drone flights over Tampa that day.
7:41 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:32 pm.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 28 April 2026, the first at 7:41 pm and the last at 11:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:41 pm | Traffic and crashes | 6 min | d89c7106 |
| 8:00 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 44691e88 |
| 8:32 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 60cfd7ae |
| 9:24 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 5333a6a7 |
| 10:19 pm | Call for service | 13 min | f71be5d7 |
| 10:51 pm | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | fe7f14cb |
| 11:03 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 7ffd9dd0 |
| 11:32 pm | Call for service | 12 min | e497804d |
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.
Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.