drone flights over Schenectady that day.

8:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:21 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 26 February 2026, the first at 8:15 am and the last at 2:21 pm EST, 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, EST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service78%
Patrol support11%
Not stated11%

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 (EST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:15 am	Call for service	18 min	`a56c6631`
8:56 am	Patrol support	18 min	`f87c4e05`
9:23 am	Call for service	14 min	`cbfbe3d6`
9:40 am	Call for service	18 min	`0a0b3564`
11:32 am	Call for service	12 min	`9a2b2790`
12:36 pm	Call for service	19 min	`6830c0fb`
1:18 pm	Call for service	8 min	`8f0174bb`
2:07 pm	Call for service	23 min	`c548467d`
2:21 pm	Not stated	20 min	`0a6dfe85`

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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