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  4. July 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Thursday 30 July 2026

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

20

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:51 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 20 times on Thursday 30 July 2026, the first at 12:20 am and the last at 9:51 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Other50%
  2. Call for service35%
  3. Not stated15%

Flights, in order

20 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
12:20 amCall for service10 minSBPD-260
1:13 amOther16 minSBPD-260
10:41 amCall for service1 min 54 sSBPD-260
10:45 amOther14 minSBPD-260
11:02 amCall for service5 minSBPD-260
12:27 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
12:50 pmCall for service14 minSBPD-260
1:12 pmOther19 minSBPD-260
2:22 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
2:49 pmCall for service8 minSBPD-260
3:03 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
3:25 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
3:42 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
4:22 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
6:34 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-260
6:49 pmCall for service16 minSBPD-260
7:54 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
8:18 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-260
9:15 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
9:51 pmOther17 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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