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Duluth, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 19 March 2026

15 drone flights from Duluth Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over Duluth that day.

12:22 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 6:38 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Duluth police drones flew 15 times on Thursday 19 March 2026, the first at 12:22 pm and the last at 6:38 pm CDT, by Duluth Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Training and testing47%

Flights, in order

15 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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:22 pmTraining and testing6 min86172c4d
12:34 pmCall for service9 minef0c980c
12:48 pmTraining and testing11 mindae1f446
1:23 pmTraining and testing6 min84c69a17
1:31 pmTraining and testing8 min3a43c42f
2:21 pmTraining and testing9 min48308291
2:36 pmCall for service16 min11e95bce
3:43 pmCall for service1 min 56 s67e27120
3:49 pmCall for service14 mina5f78563
4:23 pmCall for service11 minfc04c60f
4:46 pmCall for service9 min01953e6e
5:07 pmCall for service5 minc187080a
5:49 pmCall for service7 min4290bb82
6:05 pmTraining and testing6 mina8ce0321
6:38 pmTraining and testing5 min1b9ab095

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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