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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Thursday 8 October 2026

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

13

drone flights over South Bend that day.

1:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:31 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 8 October 2026, the first at 1:19 am and the last at 10:31 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Other38%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Not stated31%

Flights, in order

13 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
1:19 amCall for service11 minSBPD-261
2:45 amOther11 minSBPD-261
10:55 amOther10 minSBPD-261
1:21 pmOther18 minSBPD-261
2:07 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-261
3:22 pmNot stated24 minSBPD-261
5:49 pmOther17 minSBPD-261
6:10 pmCall for service14 minSBPD-261
7:52 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-261
9:04 pmOther3 minSBPD-261
9:57 pmCall for service13 minSBPD-261
10:17 pmCall for service6 minSBPD-261
10:31 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-261

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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