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  4. March 2026
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Duluth, Minnesota · one day

Friday 27 March 2026

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

24

drone flights over Duluth that day.

11:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:30 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Duluth police drones flew 24 times on Friday 27 March 2026, the first at 11:30 am and the last at 8:30 pm CDT, by Duluth Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 service67%
  2. Training and testing33%

Flights, in order

24 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
11:30 amCall for service18 min7534953c
11:56 amCall for service18 mina5e70198
12:26 pmCall for service6 min3af6e046
1:30 pmCall for service10 minfc6899f9
1:47 pmCall for service13 min24a27d87
2:01 pmCall for service7 min433607be
2:13 pmCall for service13 min22d1c755
2:31 pmCall for service5 min2be213c8
2:41 pmCall for service7 min51a2d995
2:56 pmTraining and testing3 minb6bd6196
3:07 pmTraining and testing2 minf1dc7083
3:22 pmTraining and testing4 min9a93f201
3:22 pmTraining and testing5 mineba778a2
3:41 pmTraining and testing7 min3fbb5abb
4:12 pmTraining and testing3 min26d42951
4:33 pmCall for service13 min0e251f16
4:48 pmCall for service19 minb33a996d
5:46 pmCall for service9 min419ec39b
6:32 pmCall for service8 min744f6411
6:43 pmCall for service10 min1166d085
6:57 pmCall for service14 min90e127e9
8:05 pmTraining and testing8 min32f0b60b
8:19 pmTraining and testing1 min 59 s44238cbd
8:30 pmCall for service18 minfbd62516

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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