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  4. October 2026
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South Bend, Indiana · one day

Wednesday 21 October 2026

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

13

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:36 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 12:17 am and the last at 11:36 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other46%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Not stated23%

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
12:17 amCall for service15 minSBPD-261
1:27 amNot stated5 minSBPD-261
1:51 amOther6 minSBPD-261
2:00 amCall for service8 minSBPD-261
2:11 amOther14 minSBPD-261
7:25 amOther24 minSBPD-261
10:09 amOther14 minSBPD-261
11:58 amNot stated13 minSBPD-261
12:31 pmOther12 minSBPD-261
8:23 pmNot stated10 minSBPD-261
8:46 pmCall for service13 minSBPD-261
9:39 pmCall for service8 minSBPD-261
11:36 pmOther12 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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