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  4. August 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 4 August 2026

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

20

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:35 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 20 times on Tuesday 4 August 2026, the first at 12:49 am and the last at 11:35 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. Other55%
  2. Not stated25%
  3. Call for service20%

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
12:49 amCall for service13 minSBPD-260
1:13 amOther21 minSBPD-260
1:38 amOther12 minSBPD-260
2:40 amOther14 minSBPD-260
10:14 amCall for service10 minSBPD-260
2:24 pmOther5 minSBPD-260
2:46 pmOther18 minSBPD-260
3:11 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
3:37 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260
3:49 pmOther10 minSBPD-260
5:37 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
6:02 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260
6:43 pmNot stated16 minSBPD-260
7:02 pmNot stated17 minSBPD-260
8:02 pmNot stated14 minSBPD-260
9:20 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
9:52 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
10:30 pmOther6 minSBPD-260
10:40 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
11:35 pmCall for service20 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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