8
drone flights over Duluth that day.
9:58 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:52 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Duluth police drones flew 8 times on Friday 10 April 2026, the first at 9:58 am and the last at 4:52 pm CDT, by Duluth Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:58 am | Call for service | 12 min | 475c0c76 |
| 10:41 am | Call for service | 18 min | 668d071b |
| 12:05 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 7557973f |
| 1:06 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 1ee5a5c2 |
| 2:17 pm | Call for service | 10 min | cbb7b4e1 |
| 3:08 pm | Call for service | 6 min | ca428a08 |
| 3:43 pm | Call for service | 14 min | fb6ef499 |
| 4:52 pm | Call for service | 15 min | c599fe79 |
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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