drone flights over Bloomington that day.

11:19 am

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

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 28 April 2026, the first at 11:19 am and the last at 3:35 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 testing96%
Not stated4%

Flights, in order

24 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
11:19 am	Training and testing	28 s	`2a05f0da`
1:16 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`da4cc4fc`
1:19 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`e6a8b2a8`
1:30 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`d2065b03`
1:48 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`4afec7f3`
1:48 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`a840012d`
2:03 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`ce4147d9`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	53 s	`b29fa5a5`
2:11 pm	Training and testing	26 s	`61b0d467`
2:16 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`eedc170a`
2:18 pm	Training and testing	1 min 06 s	`8564e610`
2:21 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`a8bd2838`
2:44 pm	Training and testing	27 s	`46aebd21`
2:44 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`0921ffea`
2:50 pm	Not stated	6 min	`ed82074c`
2:57 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`f89e7a9f`
3:06 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`cd226f64`
3:11 pm	Training and testing	18 min	`995ba422`
3:15 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`641db6a4`
3:18 pm	Training and testing	29 s	`a54b38cd`
3:19 pm	Training and testing	32 s	`e15b2e29`
3:20 pm	Training and testing	35 s	`b26c8763`
3:22 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`e2406bd7`
3:35 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`9053b017`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
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 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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