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  4. April 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 21 April 2026

18 drone flights from South Bend Police Department's published record.

18

drone flights over South Bend that day.

1:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:57 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 18 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 1:07 am and the last at 10:57 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated56%
  2. Other39%
  3. Call for service6%

Flights, in order

18 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:07 amNot stated17 minSBPD-260
1:28 amOther25 minSBPD-260
2:06 amOther22 minSBPD-260
2:32 amNot stated18 minSBPD-260
3:09 amNot stated22 minSBPD-260
3:34 amNot stated21 minSBPD-260
4:03 amOther21 minSBPD-260
4:29 amNot stated17 minSBPD-260
11:29 amOther28 minSBPD-260
12:07 pmNot stated28 minSBPD-260
12:42 pmOther24 minSBPD-260
1:10 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
1:26 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260
7:56 pmOther6 minSBPD-260
9:34 pmNot stated2 minSBPD-260
9:54 pmCall for service8 minSBPD-260
10:29 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
10:57 pmNot stated18 minSBPD-260

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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