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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 20 October 2026

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

16

drone flights over South Bend that day.

1:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:56 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 20 October 2026, the first at 1:29 am and the last at 11:56 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Call for service50%
  2. Not stated44%
  3. Other6%

Flights, in order

16 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
1:29 amNot stated4 minSBPD-261
1:50 amNot stated12 minSBPD-261
2:34 amNot stated8 minSBPD-261
10:26 amNot stated22 minSBPD-261
11:05 amNot stated8 minSBPD-261
1:37 pmCall for service13 minSBPD-261
4:04 pmNot stated9 minSBPD-261
5:28 pmNot stated11 minSBPD-261
6:04 pmCall for service13 minSBPD-261
6:50 pmCall for service11 minSBPD-261
7:12 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-261
7:58 pmOther4 minSBPD-261
9:36 pmCall for service7 minSBPD-261
10:14 pmCall for service22 minSBPD-261
11:01 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-261
11:56 pmCall for service9 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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