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  4. January 2026
  5. 29

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 29 January 2026

27 drone flights from Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

27

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

8:22 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:42 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 27 times on Thursday 29 January 2026, the first at 8:22 am and the last at 11:42 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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, MST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other41%
  2. Not stated37%
  3. Call for service15%
  4. Traffic and crashes7%

Flights, in order

27 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 (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:22 amCall for service20 minLCPD-260
8:49 amTraffic and crashes23 minLCPD-260
9:07 amCall for service22 minLCPD-260
9:45 amOther11 minLCPD-260
10:38 amOther19 minLCPD-260
11:12 amNot stated22 minLCPD-260
11:28 amNot stated6 minLCPD-260
12:28 pmNot stated19 minLCPD-260
12:43 pmOther23 minLCPD-260
1:31 pmNot stated10 minLCPD-260
1:48 pmNot stated9 minLCPD-260
2:01 pmOther8 minLCPD-260
2:45 pmOther13 minLCPD-260
3:00 pmTraffic and crashes5 minLCPD-260
3:19 pmCall for service25 minLCPD-260
4:05 pmNot stated9 minLCPD-260
5:58 pmOther22 minLCPD-260
6:15 pmOther18 minLCPD-260
6:41 pmOther19 minLCPD-260
7:04 pmNot stated22 minLCPD-260
7:31 pmNot stated16 minLCPD-260
8:08 pmNot stated18 minLCPD-260
8:35 pmNot stated15 minLCPD-260
10:50 pmOther16 minLCPD-260
11:07 pmOther7 minLCPD-260
11:34 pmOther8 minLCPD-260
11:42 pmCall for service10 minLCPD-260

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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