8
drone flights over Melrose Park that day.
7:49 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:53 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Melrose Park police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 20 May 2026, the first at 7:49 am and the last at 7:53 pm CDT, by Melrose Park Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:49 am | Call for service | 9 min | 39554e47 |
| 8:16 am | Call for service | 7 min | e5d7d797 |
| 10:12 am | Call for service | 21 min | 4311e4c1 |
| 1:02 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 56f724bd |
| 2:26 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 1b117e63 |
| 5:33 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 756a5dd5 |
| 7:09 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 12d55027 |
| 7:53 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 963c95b6 |
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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