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  4. July 2026
  5. 15

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Wednesday 15 July 2026

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

16

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

12:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:02 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 15 July 2026, the first at 12:05 am and the last at 8:02 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

16 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. Not stated38%
  2. Other31%
  3. Call for service25%
  4. Traffic and crashes6%

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
12:05 amOther12 minLCPD-260
7:20 amCall for service7 minLCPD-260
8:01 amNot stated13 minLCPD-260
9:25 amOther22 minLCPD-260
9:55 amCall for service20 minLCPD-260
10:48 amCall for service14 minLCPD-260
11:24 amNot stated4 minLCPD-260
11:34 amNot stated16 minLCPD-260
12:44 pmOther16 minLCPD-260
1:11 pmNot stated9 minLCPD-260
1:24 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
2:22 pmCall for service11 minLCPD-260
3:59 pmNot stated11 minLCPD-260
5:01 pmNot stated13 minLCPD-260
5:20 pmTraffic and crashes15 minLCPD-260
8:02 pmOther7 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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