9
drone flights over Tampa that day.
12:12 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:36 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 30 April 2026, the first at 12:12 am and the last at 9:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:12 am | Search | 19 min | 3a44de8e |
| 4:57 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 2724fb53 |
| 5:17 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 33fb9d50 |
| 6:08 pm | Call for service | 15 min | fddb5fb7 |
| 6:45 pm | Traffic and crashes | 11 min | 733e7f7d |
| 7:24 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 56b78d68 |
| 7:53 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 7498cc05 |
| 8:22 pm | Call for service | 15 min | ed69af0e |
| 9:36 pm | Call for service | 10 min | a9ac10c3 |
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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