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  4. September 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Friday 18 September 2026

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

18

drone flights over South Bend that day.

11:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:42 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 18 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 11:00 am and the last at 10:42 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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. Other39%
  2. Not stated33%
  3. Call for service28%

Flights, in order

18 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
11:00 amCall for service7 minSBPD-260
11:14 amCall for service13 minSBPD-260
12:47 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
1:23 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
1:52 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
3:12 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260
3:56 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
4:24 pmOther14 minSBPD-260
6:00 pmNot stated16 minSBPD-260
6:25 pmOther6 minSBPD-260
6:39 pmCall for service12 minSBPD-260
6:58 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-260
7:19 pmCall for service14 minSBPD-260
8:03 pmNot stated1 min 54 sSBPD-260
9:08 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
9:37 pmOther22 minSBPD-260
10:15 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
10:42 pmNot stated18 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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