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  4. July 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Wednesday 15 July 2026

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

21

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 21 times on Wednesday 15 July 2026, the first at 12:52 am and the last at 11:33 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 stated43%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Other29%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:52 amNot stated19 minSBPD-260
1:46 amNot stated14 minSBPD-260
10:30 amCall for service12 minSBPD-260
11:01 amOther21 minSBPD-260
11:43 amOther16 minSBPD-260
1:52 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
2:27 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-260
2:44 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-260
3:47 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
4:16 pmOther6 minSBPD-260
4:43 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
5:19 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
6:22 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-260
7:08 pmNot stated14 minSBPD-260
7:26 pmNot stated19 minSBPD-260
8:51 pmNot stated13 minSBPD-260
9:33 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
9:58 pmNot stated8 minSBPD-260
10:52 pmNot stated13 minSBPD-260
11:08 pmCall for service7 minSBPD-260
11:33 pmNot stated16 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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