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  4. May 2026
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Schenectady, New York · one day

Thursday 21 May 2026

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

12

drone flights over Schenectady that day.

6:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:03 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Schenectady police drones flew 12 times on Thursday 21 May 2026, the first at 6:21 am and the last at 2:03 pm EDT, by Schenectady Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Other25%
  3. Patrol support8%

Flights, in order

12 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
6:21 amOther20 min03f2098c
6:46 amOther21 min732cc938
7:08 amOther16 min63a2cb34
8:33 amCall for service18 minfab258da
9:11 amCall for service16 min0c192c21
9:34 amCall for service21 min156a262b
10:07 amCall for service23 mina6775f3e
10:25 amCall for service17 min706b253a
11:56 amPatrol support22 mina9c208e9
1:04 pmCall for service18 mind5e4ee48
1:29 pmCall for service12 mincc0897c5
2:03 pmCall for service18 min36cd7a9f

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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