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  4. July 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 21 July 2026

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

19

drone flights over South Bend that day.

1:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:34 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 19 times on Tuesday 21 July 2026, the first at 1:06 am and the last at 11:34 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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. Call for service37%
  2. Not stated32%
  3. Other32%

Flights, in order

19 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
1:06 amCall for service18 minSBPD-260
1:57 amNot stated10 minSBPD-260
10:55 amOther17 minSBPD-260
11:25 amCall for service13 minSBPD-260
12:08 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
12:59 pmNot stated8 minSBPD-260
1:25 pmCall for service11 minSBPD-260
1:39 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
2:40 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
3:04 pmNot stated12 minSBPD-260
4:06 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
6:23 pmCall for service26 minSBPD-260
7:23 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
7:50 pmCall for service23 minSBPD-260
8:20 pmNot stated22 minSBPD-260
8:59 pmNot stated6 minSBPD-260
9:34 pmCall for service18 minSBPD-260
10:52 pmCall for service23 minSBPD-260
11:34 pmNot stated23 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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