11
drone flights over Tampa that day.
8:46 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:14 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Tampa police drones flew 11 times on Tuesday 18 August 2026, the first at 8:46 am and the last at 10:14 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
11 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:46 am | Call for service | 9 min | d7ab4d6b |
| 8:58 am | Call for service | 9 min | b5353875 |
| 9:20 am | Search | 11 min | c715f89d |
| 10:27 am | Call for service | 14 min | d691ab30 |
| 10:42 am | Call for service | 16 min | 07832c99 |
| 12:26 pm | Call for service | 1 min 19 s | 3e3e3bd4 |
| 1:52 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | ca7d04b4 |
| 6:24 pm | Traffic and crashes | 14 min | fd91936a |
| 7:34 pm | Search | 1 min 59 s | c0a9035f |
| 8:36 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 54f7bd36 |
| 10:14 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 2202c64d |
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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