5
drone flights over Tampa that day.
12:18 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 2:41 pm.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 5 times on Wednesday 15 July 2026, the first at 12:18 pm and the last at 2:41 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:18 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 42c9030c |
| 12:25 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 5c0d9601 |
| 1:14 pm | Call for service | 19 min | ecf90995 |
| 2:02 pm | Call for service | 16 min | b30ae59b |
| 2:41 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 7186ddc6 |
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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