4
drone flights over Tampa that day.
5:18 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:01 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 4 times on Tuesday 2 June 2026, the first at 5:18 pm and the last at 11:01 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:18 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 749f9d8b |
| 6:33 pm | Traffic and crashes | 10 min | 06c54a6f |
| 7:29 pm | Traffic and crashes | 16 min | baf2db35 |
| 11:01 pm | Traffic and crashes | 4 min | 2e42ccd6 |
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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