drone flights over Washoe County that day.

12:01 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 4:38 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Washoe County police drones flew 9 times on Monday 19 October 2026, the first at 12:01 pm and the last at 4:38 pm PDT, by Washoe County Sheriff's Office's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

Other78%
Not stated22%

Flights, in order

9 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 (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:01 pm	Other	28 min	WCSO-261
12:42 pm	Other	17 min	WCSO-261
1:11 pm	Other	5 min	WCSO-261
1:37 pm	Other	8 min	WCSO-261
1:58 pm	Other	23 min	WCSO-261
2:11 pm	Not stated	12 min	WCSO-261
2:48 pm	Other	4 min	WCSO-261
3:29 pm	Not stated	6 min	WCSO-261
4:38 pm	Other	8 min	WCSO-261

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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