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  4. May 2026
  5. 26

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 26 May 2026

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

24

drone flights over South Bend that day.

11:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:59 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 26 May 2026, the first at 11:06 am and the last at 10:59 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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. Other54%
  2. Call for service33%
  3. Not stated12%

Flights, in order

24 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
11:06 amCall for service3 minSBPD-260
11:16 amOther18 minSBPD-260
11:45 amOther15 minSBPD-260
12:16 pmOther9 minSBPD-260
1:35 pmCall for service18 minSBPD-260
2:04 pmOther4 minSBPD-260
2:15 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
2:35 pmCall for service13 minSBPD-260
3:08 pmOther18 minSBPD-260
3:50 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-260
4:09 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
4:30 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
5:00 pmCall for service24 minSBPD-260
5:38 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-260
5:49 pmOther18 minSBPD-260
6:35 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
6:57 pmCall for service18 minSBPD-260
8:01 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
8:18 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
9:08 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
9:31 pmOther24 minSBPD-260
10:03 pmNot stated13 minSBPD-260
10:38 pmOther18 minSBPD-260
10:59 pmOther20 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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