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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. February 2026
  5. 12

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 12 February 2026

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

18

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:26 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 12 February 2026, the first at 7:36 am and the last at 11:26 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other67%
  2. Not stated28%
  3. Call for service6%

Flights, in order

18 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
7:36 amOther9 minLCPD-260
9:05 amNot stated20 minLCPD-260
10:44 amOther30 minLCPD-260
11:08 amOther27 minLCPD-260
11:40 amOther26 minLCPD-260
12:17 pmNot stated16 minLCPD-260
1:37 pmNot stated22 minLCPD-260
3:21 pmOther18 minLCPD-260
3:36 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
4:01 pmNot stated9 minLCPD-260
4:27 pmNot stated11 minLCPD-260
5:00 pmOther13 minLCPD-260
5:10 pmCall for service12 minLCPD-260
6:45 pmOther11 minLCPD-260
8:33 pmOther20 minLCPD-260
9:05 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
10:40 pmOther11 minLCPD-260
11:26 pmOther14 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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