drone flights over Schenectady that day.

9:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:17 pm.

1 min 18 s

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady police drones flew 9 times on Monday 18 August 2025, the first at 9:42 am and the last at 10:17 pm EDT, by Schenectady Police Department'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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service56%
Not stated44%

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 (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:42 am	Call for service	12 min	`583a0ecd`
10:21 am	Call for service	18 min	`f0adfa28`
11:35 am	Call for service	24 min	`5019f9d0`
12:24 pm	Call for service	16 min	`b17489ef`
1:04 pm	Call for service	6 s	`34b7bc3d`
9:28 pm	Not stated	1 min 00 s	`1d6b5dd6`
9:29 pm	Not stated	1 min 00 s	`20428641`
9:31 pm	Not stated	1 min 18 s	`7438fd70`
10:17 pm	Not stated	6 s	`8108430a`

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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