8
drone flights over Tampa that day.
2:58 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:21 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 3 June 2026, the first at 2:58 pm and the last at 11:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:58 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 02 s | dd2a0e72 |
| 4:58 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 72e4c37a |
| 5:48 pm | Search | 20 min | caf2a495 |
| 7:20 pm | Call for service | 2 min | 8b95cb48 |
| 7:32 pm | Call for service | 16 min | aabb1720 |
| 7:55 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 7c755217 |
| 9:35 pm | Call for service | 16 min | cec02b80 |
| 11:21 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 50bc5bba |
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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