5
drone flights over Duluth that day.
3:18 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:08 pm.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Duluth police drones flew 5 times on Tuesday 5 May 2026, the first at 3:18 am and the last at 3:08 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:18 am | Other | 18 min | 165b3c36 |
| 3:36 am | Not stated | 18 min | b0f9f911 |
| 4:29 am | Not stated | 16 min | ca7fcf34 |
| 4:52 am | Not stated | 12 min | 57beb0cf |
| 3:08 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 30d46db5 |
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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