drone flights over Bloomington that day.

9:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:40 am.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 29 April 2026, the first at 9:43 am and the last at 11:40 am CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 testing79%
Not stated21%

Flights, in order

14 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
9:43 am	Not stated	24 min	`94ac020c`
9:46 am	Training and testing	7 min	`f393ac18`
9:55 am	Training and testing	9 min	`1667c211`
10:06 am	Training and testing	7 min	`487f700d`
10:14 am	Training and testing	11 min	`cba76bb1`
10:23 am	Training and testing	7 min	`966aeb05`
10:26 am	Training and testing	13 min	`ad4fe44f`
10:35 am	Training and testing	17 min	`69a360af`
10:56 am	Not stated	3 min	`16a54cd6`
11:03 am	Not stated	2 min	`12b2bcd5`
11:04 am	Training and testing	19 min	`6d88532f`
11:24 am	Training and testing	1 min 02 s	`592fcfea`
11:29 am	Training and testing	8 min	`2d16f3af`
11:40 am	Training and testing	11 min	`370d3373`

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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