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  4. August 2026
  5. 12

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Wednesday 12 August 2026

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

17

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:46 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 17 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 12:46 am and the last at 11:25 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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 stated35%
  2. Call for service35%
  3. Other29%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:46 amNot stated8 minSBPD-260
1:33 amNot stated20 minSBPD-260
2:39 amCall for service11 minSBPD-260
11:47 amNot stated1 min 30 sSBPD-260
11:53 amCall for service18 minSBPD-260
3:41 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260
4:05 pmOther4 minSBPD-260
4:16 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
7:13 pmCall for service21 minSBPD-260
7:37 pmNot stated18 minSBPD-260
8:33 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-260
8:49 pmOther5 minSBPD-260
8:58 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
9:14 pmCall for service8 minSBPD-260
9:28 pmOther24 minSBPD-260
10:41 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
11:25 pmCall for service12 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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