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  4. March 2026
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Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 5 March 2026

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

26

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

6:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:08 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 26 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 6:21 am and the last at 11:08 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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. Other54%
  2. Call for service35%
  3. Not stated8%
  4. Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

26 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
6:21 amCall for service13 minLCPD-260
6:45 amCall for service16 minLCPD-260
7:36 amTraffic and crashes10 minLCPD-260
7:51 amOther12 minLCPD-260
8:14 amNot stated26 minLCPD-260
8:21 amOther8 minLCPD-260
8:38 amOther9 minLCPD-260
9:26 amCall for service8 minLCPD-260
10:06 amCall for service11 minLCPD-260
10:21 amOther13 minLCPD-260
10:42 amOther21 minLCPD-260
10:58 amOther8 minLCPD-260
11:20 amOther22 minLCPD-260
12:57 pmCall for service11 minLCPD-260
1:08 pmOther19 minLCPD-260
2:31 pmOther8 minLCPD-260
3:09 pmCall for service6 minLCPD-260
4:05 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
6:59 pmOther20 minLCPD-260
7:30 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
7:48 pmOther24 minLCPD-260
8:05 pmOther18 minLCPD-260
9:54 pmCall for service7 minLCPD-260
10:29 pmCall for service25 minLCPD-260
10:48 pmCall for service9 minLCPD-260
11:08 pmNot stated11 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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