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  4. March 2026
  5. 13

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Friday 13 March 2026

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

16

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 16 times on Friday 13 March 2026, the first at 7:42 am and the last at 11:50 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 16. 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, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other50%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Not stated19%

Flights, in order

16 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 (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:42 amCall for service10 minLCPD-260
8:58 amNot stated1 min 06 sLCPD-260
9:34 amCall for service17 minLCPD-260
10:03 amNot stated10 minLCPD-260
10:28 amOther13 minLCPD-260
10:49 amCall for service20 minLCPD-260
11:55 amOther17 minLCPD-260
12:41 pmOther9 minLCPD-260
2:38 pmCall for service8 minLCPD-260
4:42 pmOther7 minLCPD-260
5:22 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
6:55 pmOther24 minLCPD-260
7:19 pmOther21 minLCPD-260
9:12 pmCall for service8 minLCPD-260
10:34 pmNot stated1 min 12 sLCPD-260
11:50 pmOther6 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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