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  4. August 2026
  5. 26

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Wednesday 26 August 2026

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

15

drone flights over South Bend that day.

2:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:57 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 15 times on Wednesday 26 August 2026, the first at 2:43 am and the last at 11:57 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 stated60%
  2. Other27%
  3. Call for service13%

Flights, in order

15 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
2:43 amOther11 minSBPD-260
10:17 amNot stated14 minSBPD-260
10:35 amNot stated19 minSBPD-260
11:00 amNot stated24 minSBPD-260
1:02 pmNot stated12 minSBPD-260
2:17 pmOther9 minSBPD-260
3:21 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
5:54 pmNot stated10 minSBPD-260
8:00 pmNot stated10 minSBPD-260
8:29 pmNot stated12 minSBPD-260
8:47 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
9:23 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
10:01 pmNot stated12 minSBPD-260
11:19 pmNot stated20 minSBPD-260
11:57 pmCall for service14 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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