9
drone flights over Duluth that day.
1:17 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 7:05 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Duluth police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 30 May 2026, the first at 1:17 pm and the last at 7:05 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:17 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | 2e4a544b |
| 1:59 pm | Call for service | 9 min | f390757d |
| 2:19 pm | Call for service | 4 min | 90ec2492 |
| 3:32 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 2e977a4b |
| 3:45 pm | Call for service | 3 min | cdda61a1 |
| 4:46 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 44698a20 |
| 5:33 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 64ed2841 |
| 6:45 pm | Call for service | 9 min | db711d6d |
| 7:05 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 7fd69707 |
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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