6
drone flights over Tampa that day.
8:28 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 6 times on Friday 7 August 2026, the first at 8:28 pm and the last at 11:55 pm EDT, by Tampa Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:28 pm | Traffic and crashes | 9 min | 8a88568c |
| 8:46 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 55892209 |
| 9:08 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 885c1aa6 |
| 9:32 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 247f05b3 |
| 9:54 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 54b9383a |
| 11:55 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 8e877dd3 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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