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  4. August 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Friday 21 August 2026

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

17

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:45 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 17 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 12:03 am and the last at 9:45 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other59%
  2. Not stated29%
  3. Call for service12%

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
12:03 amOther10 minSBPD-260
12:41 amOther6 minSBPD-260
12:50 amOther14 minSBPD-260
1:40 amOther11 minSBPD-260
2:19 amOther10 minSBPD-260
2:41 amCall for service25 minSBPD-260
11:51 amOther15 minSBPD-260
1:30 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
1:50 pmNot stated14 minSBPD-260
2:07 pmOther17 minSBPD-260
2:36 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
2:57 pmNot stated13 minSBPD-260
7:40 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
7:55 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
8:31 pmOther14 minSBPD-260
8:57 pmNot stated21 minSBPD-260
9:45 pmCall for service16 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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