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  4. September 2026
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Hempstead, New York · one day

Wednesday 9 September 2026

20 drone flights from Hempstead Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

9:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 9 September 2026, the first at 9:33 am and the last at 11:25 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated80%
  2. Other15%
  3. Call for service5%

Flights, in order

20 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:33 amOther17 minHEMPSTEA
12:52 pmNot stated13 minHEMPSTEA
1:08 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
1:30 pmNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
1:45 pmNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
2:00 pmNot stated11 minHEMPSTEA
2:27 pmNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
2:43 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
3:03 pmNot stated9 minHEMPSTEA
3:24 pmNot stated11 minHEMPSTEA
3:57 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
7:12 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
7:48 pmNot stated12 minHEMPSTEA
8:59 pmNot stated11 minHEMPSTEA
9:12 pmCall for service8 minHEMPSTEA
10:01 pmOther13 minHEMPSTEA
10:24 pmNot stated11 minHEMPSTEA
10:44 pmOther18 minHEMPSTEA
11:13 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
11:25 pmNot stated21 minHEMPSTEA

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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