drone flights over Schenectady that day.

9:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:43 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 28 August 2025, the first at 9:42 am and the last at 3:43 pm EDT, by Schenectady Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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

Not stated54%
Patrol support23%
Call for service23%

Flights, in order

13 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	Patrol support	24 min	`bdcd0daf`
10:09 am	Patrol support	24 min	`d0c4e57e`
10:45 am	Patrol support	24 min	`7fd30621`
12:29 pm	Call for service	23 min	`4d8229c6`
1:36 pm	Call for service	13 min	`ea9336c9`
2:38 pm	Call for service	1 min 24 s	`6efc864d`
2:43 pm	Not stated	36 s	`4ea67539`
2:43 pm	Not stated	2 min	`a2049c31`
2:48 pm	Not stated	5 min	`038a459c`
2:56 pm	Not stated	6 min	`bf8bc608`
3:01 pm	Not stated	5 min	`5e0b3371`
3:16 pm	Not stated	21 min	`8c5f9ce0`
3:43 pm	Not stated	24 s	`d85f175b`

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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