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  4. April 2026
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Duluth, Minnesota · one day

Wednesday 29 April 2026

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

12

drone flights over Duluth that day.

9:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:43 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Duluth police drones flew 12 times on Wednesday 29 April 2026, the first at 9:45 am and the last at 3:43 pm CDT, by Duluth Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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. Training and testing58%
  2. Call for service42%

Flights, in order

12 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
9:45 amTraining and testing3 min6feb4b92
9:49 amTraining and testing7 min74d0646b
10:31 amTraining and testing2 min5657dc28
10:39 amTraining and testing4 minfbd646ff
10:46 amCall for service12 min8e850f89
11:58 amTraining and testing3 min36ddcd5d
1:09 pmTraining and testing3 min2d94e373
1:35 pmTraining and testing4 min1bb7d9d9
2:08 pmCall for service17 min95a1c5cb
3:03 pmCall for service17 min6b3ba8aa
3:22 pmCall for service11 min7ffe1df9
3:43 pmCall for service12 min3c132ca7

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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