8
drone flights over Schenectady that day.
8:16 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:00 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Schenectady police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 23 September 2026, the first at 8:16 am and the last at 11:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:16 am | Call for service | 4 min | 94bf25fd |
| 8:22 am | Call for service | 16 min | fd52f99d |
| 12:34 pm | Not stated | 22 min | 4b559ec4 |
| 1:12 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 4e5da624 |
| 3:34 pm | Call for service | 1 min 54 s | 784621e1 |
| 3:37 pm | Not stated | 14 min | 671d0e40 |
| 5:22 pm | Other | 21 min | 6e76a80f |
| 11:00 pm | Call for service | 22 min | db466c9b |
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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