drone flights over Washoe County that day.

6:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:52 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Washoe County police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 27 October 2026, the first at 6:31 am and the last at 4:52 pm PDT, by Washoe County Sheriff's Office's published record.

8 drawable flights of 8. 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

Other88%
Not stated12%

Flights, in order

8 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
6:31 am	Other	8 min	WCSO-261
6:36 am	Not stated	18 min	WCSO-261
8:13 am	Other	19 min	WCSO-261
8:38 am	Other	26 min	WCSO-261
12:16 pm	Other	14 min	WCSO-261
12:42 pm	Other	8 min	WCSO-261
4:15 pm	Other	17 min	WCSO-261
4:52 pm	Other	16 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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