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  4. June 2026
  5. 18

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 18 June 2026

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

21

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

6:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:26 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 21 times on Thursday 18 June 2026, the first at 6:47 am and the last at 9:26 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated43%
  2. Other38%
  3. Traffic and crashes10%
  4. Call for service5%
  5. Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

21 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
6:47 amCall for service10 minLCPD-260
8:37 amNot stated16 minLCPD-260
9:41 amOther21 minLCPD-260
10:40 amOther12 minLCPD-260
11:12 amAssisting another agency9 minLCPD-260
12:45 pmOther21 minLCPD-260
1:23 pmOther23 minLCPD-260
1:44 pmOther7 minLCPD-260
2:41 pmNot stated21 minLCPD-260
3:07 pmOther16 minLCPD-260
3:26 pmNot stated10 minLCPD-260
3:43 pmNot stated12 minLCPD-260
3:52 pmNot stated19 minLCPD-260
4:46 pmTraffic and crashes9 minLCPD-260
4:59 pmNot stated19 minLCPD-260
6:37 pmNot stated14 minLCPD-260
6:49 pmNot stated25 minLCPD-260
7:24 pmNot stated11 minLCPD-260
8:17 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
9:05 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
9:26 pmTraffic and crashes14 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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