drone flights over Washoe County that day.

7:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:07 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Washoe County police drones flew 7 times on Friday 23 October 2026, the first at 7:45 am and the last at 4:07 pm PDT, by Washoe County Sheriff's Office's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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

Not stated57%
Other43%

Flights, in order

7 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
7:45 am	Not stated	19 min	WCSO-261
11:25 am	Not stated	12 min	WCSO-261
11:42 am	Not stated	7 min	WCSO-261
12:03 pm	Other	10 min	WCSO-261
12:28 pm	Other	6 min	WCSO-261
2:34 pm	Other	13 min	WCSO-261
4:07 pm	Not stated	20 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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