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  4. April 2026
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Bloomington, Illinois · one day

Saturday 18 April 2026

5 drone flights from Bloomington Police Department's published record.

5

drone flights over Bloomington that day.

1:54 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 3:14 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 5 times on Saturday 18 April 2026, the first at 1:54 pm and the last at 3:14 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

4 drawable flights of 5. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other80%
  2. Not stated20%

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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:54 pmOther20 min44a5c14b
2:17 pmOther22 min6eaf4d69
2:39 pmOther3 min0c7a1c71
2:52 pmOther21 min5b1ac7c8
3:14 pmNot stated54 s72c4839d

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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