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  4. September 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 22 September 2026

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

22

drone flights over South Bend that day.

2:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:45 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 22 times on Tuesday 22 September 2026, the first at 2:01 am and the last at 11:45 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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 stated45%
  2. Other32%
  3. Call for service23%

Flights, in order

22 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
2:01 amCall for service9 minSBPD-260
2:22 amNot stated17 minSBPD-260
10:11 amCall for service18 minSBPD-260
11:22 amOther11 minSBPD-260
12:21 pmOther6 minSBPD-260
1:47 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
2:22 pmCall for service7 minSBPD-260
4:06 pmOther10 minSBPD-260
5:15 pmNot stated9 minSBPD-260
5:40 pmOther5 minSBPD-260
6:44 pmNot stated10 minSBPD-260
7:00 pmNot stated1 min 30 sSBPD-260
7:47 pmNot stated12 minSBPD-260
8:10 pmNot stated7 minSBPD-260
8:35 pmNot stated9 minSBPD-260
8:47 pmCall for service22 minSBPD-260
9:24 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
10:02 pmNot stated21 minSBPD-260
10:43 pmNot stated2 minSBPD-260
11:00 pmOther10 minSBPD-260
11:26 pmCall for service16 minSBPD-260
11:45 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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