CityDroneWatch
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  4. February 2026
  5. 17

New Orleans, Louisiana · one day

Tuesday 17 February 2026

16 drone flights from New Orleans Police Department's published record.

16

drone flights over New Orleans that day.

7:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:47 pm.

26 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

New Orleans police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 17 February 2026, the first at 7:49 am and the last at 3:47 pm CST, by New Orleans 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, CST.

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Why, in the agency's words

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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 (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:49 amEvents27 min0e1a136c
8:54 amEvents26 minf848734a
9:22 amEvents26 minb6212f65
9:50 amEvents27 min0e8a2257
10:20 amEvents29 min8816f597
10:51 amEvents26 min202e6d7e
11:19 amEvents28 min0871a764
11:53 amEvents28 min9c592724
12:28 pmEvents25 mine5be7c0e
12:56 pmEvents28 min37117615
1:26 pmEvents25 minede403ad
1:53 pmEvents27 min486c4d12
2:22 pmEvents26 minf4a76856
2:50 pmEvents25 min221d5cb7
3:17 pmEvents27 minaf831224
3:47 pmEvents21 min66f4d62b

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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