drone flights over Bloomington that day.

9:38 am

first takeoff; the last was at 12:53 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 31 times on Friday 17 April 2026, the first at 9:38 am and the last at 12:53 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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

31 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
9:38 am	Training and testing	24 min	`420b050f`
9:50 am	Training and testing	22 min	`525473d4`
10:08 am	Training and testing	11 min	`26166229`
10:14 am	Training and testing	35 s	`61ebb282`
10:16 am	Training and testing	1 min 02 s	`df6e2e7f`
10:17 am	Training and testing	58 s	`6cc42bbe`
10:19 am	Training and testing	19 min	`a207dd4b`
10:31 am	Training and testing	5 min	`7101cd4a`
10:39 am	Training and testing	48 s	`713b7c13`
10:40 am	Training and testing	34 s	`440d6844`
10:41 am	Training and testing	21 min	`a44b93e7`
10:41 am	Training and testing	22 min	`4d1ad4d0`
10:54 am	Training and testing	32 s	`41552bdf`
10:55 am	Training and testing	31 s	`5fd3ba96`
10:57 am	Training and testing	24 min	`52307daf`
11:06 am	Training and testing	18 min	`d0fd4774`
11:20 am	Training and testing	1 min 03 s	`3a8dbb51`
11:22 am	Training and testing	1 min 06 s	`16d675d7`
11:23 am	Training and testing	23 min	`e238fc2b`
11:32 am	Training and testing	1 min 28 s	`8deca361`
11:36 am	Training and testing	3 min	`fd2abfd0`
11:48 am	Training and testing	24 min	`0e7ffd01`
11:49 am	Training and testing	12 min	`a75bdfb0`
12:05 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`ec04df1e`
12:07 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`336107f1`
12:15 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`79a34445`
12:19 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`63c6ce37`
12:31 pm	Training and testing	16 s	`a87d511f`
12:33 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`b82d0bf0`
12:36 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`e1840485`
12:53 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`974246f1`

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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