8
drone flights over Schenectady that day.
10:53 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:54 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Schenectady police drones flew 8 times on Friday 2 January 2026, the first at 10:53 am and the last at 6:54 pm EST, by Schenectady Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EST.
Why, in the agency's words
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 (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:53 am | Call for service | 23 min | 1a81b94b |
| 11:31 am | Call for service | 13 min | fd2d951c |
| 2:52 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 702ce48e |
| 4:09 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 7554f6eb |
| 4:27 pm | Patrol support | 19 min | a424759f |
| 5:38 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | 6d5a8db4 |
| 6:15 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 8cf73bb4 |
| 6:54 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | 2e014b25 |
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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