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  4. May 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Wednesday 20 May 2026

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

13

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:54 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 20 May 2026, the first at 12:17 am and the last at 10:54 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Other62%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Not stated8%

Flights, in order

13 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
12:17 amNot stated5 minSBPD-260
1:30 amCall for service14 minSBPD-260
2:24 amOther14 minSBPD-260
12:37 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
12:56 pmCall for service16 minSBPD-260
3:13 pmOther30 minSBPD-260
4:16 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
6:19 pmCall for service23 minSBPD-260
7:32 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
7:59 pmOther20 minSBPD-260
8:29 pmOther25 minSBPD-260
10:35 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
10:54 pmOther21 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, 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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