8
drone flights over Schenectady that day.
8:48 am
first takeoff; the last was at 2:16 pm.
20 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Schenectady police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 19 May 2026, the first at 8:48 am and the last at 2:16 pm EDT, by Schenectady Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:48 am | Call for service | 20 min | b0b5ef6b |
| 9:46 am | Call for service | 22 min | fa7fb711 |
| 10:16 am | Call for service | 22 min | 843170d4 |
| 11:02 am | Call for service | 21 min | 6eb86fee |
| 11:14 am | Other | 8 min | bd46f547 |
| 1:06 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 33cf6910 |
| 2:01 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 756105fc |
| 2:16 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 8f6d6bea |
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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