9
drone flights over Cincinnati that day.
5:25 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:34 am.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Cincinnati police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 18 December 2025, the first at 5:25 am and the last at 11:34 am EST, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EST.
Why, in the agency's words
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:25 am | Call for service | 11 min | 78553d46 |
| 6:10 am | Call for service | 15 min | e922786d |
| 7:07 am | Call for service | 21 min | 4789d611 |
| 7:54 am | Call for service | 16 min | a56c5398 |
| 8:14 am | Call for service | 16 min | daf5f1f9 |
| 9:11 am | Call for service | 42 s | af7c0b0f |
| 9:45 am | Call for service | 40 s | a2df83de |
| 11:24 am | Call for service | 19 min | 1dd51c2c |
| 11:34 am | Call for service | 17 min | 333119eb |
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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