drone flights over Bloomington that day.

10:51 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:35 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 25 times on Wednesday 15 April 2026, the first at 10:51 am and the last at 3:35 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

25 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
10:51 am	Training and testing	18 min	`624d325a`
11:04 am	Training and testing	22 min	`1e88f971`
11:14 am	Training and testing	26 min	`33b2dd36`
11:37 am	Training and testing	27 min	`fa40cbab`
11:47 am	Training and testing	22 min	`70f6e9ab`
12:12 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`7c10f785`
12:15 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`3747a510`
2:00 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`25b7771c`
2:01 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`9591dfaf`
2:27 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`b2cef6d4`
2:28 pm	Training and testing	22 min	`f6dbd97f`
2:45 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`a11a1071`
2:50 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`ae518b66`
2:53 pm	Training and testing	24 s	`ff35c491`
2:54 pm	Training and testing	29 s	`59e6bcdb`
2:55 pm	Training and testing	34 s	`84f37236`
2:59 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`b2e20389`
3:01 pm	Training and testing	12 s	`1b365bf0`
3:02 pm	Training and testing	43 s	`415e2b89`
3:04 pm	Training and testing	38 s	`84f1d53f`
3:05 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`c326e155`
3:22 pm	Training and testing	44 s	`3809470e`
3:23 pm	Training and testing	1 min 03 s	`ffa4ca7c`
3:25 pm	Training and testing	49 s	`91c4f8fe`
3:35 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`c2a98b21`

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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