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  4. October 2026
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Hempstead, New York · one day

Saturday 17 October 2026

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

18

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

1:11 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:32 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 18 times on Saturday 17 October 2026, the first at 1:11 pm and the last at 11:32 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 stated83%
  2. Call for service11%
  3. Other6%

Flights, in order

18 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
1:11 pmNot stated20 minHEMPSTEA
1:34 pmNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
2:05 pmNot stated18 minHEMPSTEA
2:27 pmNot stated22 minHEMPSTEA
2:58 pmNot stated15 minHEMPSTEA
3:22 pmNot stated14 minHEMPSTEA
3:41 pmNot stated25 minHEMPSTEA
4:18 pmNot stated20 minHEMPSTEA
4:40 pmNot stated22 minHEMPSTEA
5:06 pmOther9 minHEMPSTEA
5:37 pmCall for service10 minHEMPSTEA
7:51 pmNot stated17 minHEMPSTEA
8:11 pmNot stated20 minHEMPSTEA
8:35 pmNot stated20 minHEMPSTEA
9:01 pmNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
9:59 pmNot stated6 minHEMPSTEA
10:10 pmCall for service13 minHEMPSTEA
11:32 pmNot stated11 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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