drone flights over Duluth that day.

9:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:43 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Duluth police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 6 January 2026, the first at 9:07 am and the last at 2:43 pm CST, by Duluth 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:07 am	Training and testing	18 min	`ca1163bf`
9:08 am	Training and testing	20 min	`42e0c334`
10:05 am	Training and testing	11 min	`b8cecf4c`
10:23 am	Training and testing	5 min	`923ae84c`
10:29 am	Training and testing	4 min	`437800c5`
10:37 am	Training and testing	6 min	`236fa61d`
10:49 am	Training and testing	5 min	`e6334fc5`
10:59 am	Training and testing	7 min	`8accd315`
11:10 am	Training and testing	1 min 18 s	`3a25bfc5`
11:13 am	Training and testing	16 min	`10864c0e`
11:14 am	Training and testing	19 min	`193c9b60`
12:43 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`894a96be`
1:46 pm	Training and testing	18 min	`d72e2122`
2:08 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`d8f3eb1b`
2:36 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`d34e6136`
2:43 pm	Training and testing	48 s	`6a9b54d1`

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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