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  4. May 2026
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Schenectady, New York · one day

Monday 4 May 2026

7 drone flights from Schenectady Police Department's published record.

7

drone flights over Schenectady that day.

8:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:42 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady police drones flew 7 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 8:48 am and the last at 2:42 pm EDT, by Schenectady Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service100%

Flights, in order

7 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:48 amCall for service21 minaa1c2851
9:38 amCall for service20 min42e0b25f
11:35 amCall for service22 min0ce2fd45
12:36 pmCall for service13 min68d4dc4c
1:28 pmCall for service18 minf7b9abcf
2:15 pmCall for service16 min71f7a8ac
2:42 pmCall for service22 min6e2551ed

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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