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  4. May 2026
  5. 29

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Friday 29 May 2026

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

27

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:43 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 27 times on Friday 29 May 2026, the first at 12:16 am and the last at 11:43 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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. Other52%
  2. Not stated33%
  3. Call for service15%

Flights, in order

27 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
12:16 amOther14 minSBPD-260
1:05 amOther3 minSBPD-260
1:25 amOther16 minSBPD-260
1:47 amCall for service20 minSBPD-260
2:21 amOther16 minSBPD-260
10:15 amNot stated15 minSBPD-260
10:35 amNot stated14 minSBPD-260
10:51 amNot stated20 minSBPD-260
11:24 amOther7 minSBPD-260
12:16 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
12:54 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
1:26 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
1:57 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
2:14 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
3:09 pmNot stated22 minSBPD-260
3:56 pmNot stated7 minSBPD-260
4:31 pmNot stated6 minSBPD-260
5:26 pmOther2 minSBPD-260
5:38 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-260
6:01 pmOther14 minSBPD-260
6:33 pmCall for service22 minSBPD-260
7:19 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
8:15 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
9:14 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-260
10:00 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
10:30 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
11:43 pmNot stated11 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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