5
drone flights over Schenectady that day.
10:01 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:14 pm.
18 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Schenectady police drones flew 5 times on Thursday 8 January 2026, the first at 10:01 am and the last at 5:14 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:01 am | Traffic and crashes | 21 min | b8b8f3bd |
| 12:03 pm | Call for service | 22 min | a0ceb73e |
| 4:15 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 42ea9ad8 |
| 4:59 pm | Call for service | 10 min | bc4495e3 |
| 5:14 pm | Other | 8 min | b41f0d65 |
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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