9
drone flights over Saint Paul that day.
12:11 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:56 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Saint Paul police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 16 July 2026, the first at 12:11 pm and the last at 11:56 pm CDT, by St. Paul 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:11 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 0d5860a3 |
| 1:28 pm | Training and testing | 40 s | e1782587 |
| 5:53 pm | Call for service | 15 min | b2b2c801 |
| 6:06 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 6f1dfb27 |
| 7:39 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 02fdb85f |
| 8:16 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 830ca640 |
| 9:51 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 6b5fd362 |
| 11:26 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 1a3e132b |
| 11:56 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 454f9aff |
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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