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Cincinnati, Ohio · one day

Saturday 3 January 2026

27 drone flights from Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

27

drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 27 times on Saturday 3 January 2026, the first at 12:02 am and the last at 11:58 pm EST, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 27. 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, EST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service100%

Flights, in order

27 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:02 amCall for service14 min13d46266
12:15 amCall for service18 min1c8ee204
12:23 amCall for service14 min973117a9
12:41 amCall for service15 min1f3ad75c
12:47 amCall for service20 min98c59878
12:50 amCall for service13 min99f8af37
10:46 amCall for service10 min7247c9df
10:57 amCall for service10 min9e03a13a
1:01 pmCall for service14 mindc3335a3
1:06 pmCall for service20 min7de7ddc0
1:21 pmCall for service12 minb6388868
1:39 pmCall for service20 mina3575ea9
2:00 pmCall for service21 min5981a805
2:11 pmCall for service22 min60d64b3a
2:22 pmCall for service23 min4bd0d230
2:47 pmCall for service19 min96b5cd96
3:35 pmCall for service1 min 24 s05e31fe8
5:08 pmCall for service11 minc37792c5
6:00 pmCall for service7 mine43ae6d6
8:13 pmCall for service8 min106cb525
9:08 pmCall for service10 min4f4e80d8
9:58 pmCall for service15 min880f1f90
10:34 pmCall for service10 minf5de794b
10:45 pmCall for service10 min9e7ab22f
11:26 pmCall for service11 min48bc8e38
11:40 pmCall for service15 min343f2251
11:58 pmCall for service8 minb73aad0f

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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