8
drone flights over Melrose Park that day.
7:49 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:59 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Melrose Park police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 16 September 2026, the first at 7:49 am and the last at 10:59 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 | 383cd24f |
| 9:22 am | Call for service | 9 min | 667403a3 |
| 11:40 am | Training and testing | 7 min | 57014234 |
| 2:56 pm | Other | 14 min | 729d2f1f |
| 5:44 pm | Call for service | 11 min | b6885961 |
| 8:13 pm | Other | 5 min | 486614fa |
| 8:53 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 19848e2a |
| 10:59 pm | Call for service | 11 min | ee0bbc60 |
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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