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Cincinnati, Ohio · one day

Monday 5 January 2026

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

51

drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

8:14 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:39 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 51 times on Monday 5 January 2026, the first at 8:14 am and the last at 11:39 pm EST, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

51 drawable flights of 51. 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

51 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
8:14 amCall for service22 min4d991b1e
8:29 amCall for service17 min96483cce
8:41 amCall for service1 min 09 s1b0fca26
9:13 amCall for service10 minee767bed
9:45 amCall for service20 mina14cc220
9:51 amCall for service8 minf1a2b89a
10:04 amCall for service11 minac892530
10:15 amCall for service10 min8f1e7614
10:25 amCall for service11 minb6f91fe1
10:39 amCall for service10 min0ee5f871
10:54 amCall for service18 min0ddfb265
12:15 pmCall for service11 min61b13cef
1:11 pmCall for service5 min20791201
1:16 pmCall for service19 min16b88377
1:44 pmCall for service12 min58c92659
2:17 pmCall for service17 minb1979e62
2:26 pmCall for service12 minda241a1c
2:43 pmCall for service18 minc97acce7
3:32 pmCall for service15 min7feacb94
4:01 pmCall for service13 min3c1fad50
4:03 pmCall for service11 min6630ba48
4:32 pmCall for service6 min46be8153
4:39 pmCall for service16 min48d9e94b
4:58 pmCall for service1 min 52 s5cdee007
4:59 pmCall for service3 min30fcef72
5:03 pmCall for service15 min910a4785
5:29 pmCall for service13 min49e976c1
5:40 pmCall for service8 min0c76ee42
5:56 pmCall for service11 min2b025e5f
6:19 pmCall for service18 minc9a0049a
6:28 pmCall for service15 min67f73b55
6:40 pmCall for service4 mine13ad751
6:40 pmCall for service17 minf5d1abbd
7:12 pmCall for service13 mind060a0d4
7:18 pmCall for service11 minbd8b4951
7:55 pmCall for service10 minbb8eb830
7:58 pmCall for service10 min0d3d7715
8:16 pmCall for service12 mine7552baf
8:38 pmCall for service10 min7c88b0e0
8:47 pmCall for service12 min36ca401c
8:58 pmCall for service8 mineff7fbf7
9:13 pmCall for service5 min6e7de084
9:24 pmCall for service9 min0c92f064
9:33 pmCall for service1 min 54 s0bcbb439
9:50 pmCall for service18 minfb8e33af
10:10 pmCall for service11 min15d511db
10:17 pmCall for service12 min602ce155
10:39 pmCall for service10 min7eadaf65
10:55 pmCall for service19 minf779dacd
11:31 pmCall for service10 min9a70c8dc
11:39 pmCall for service15 min68a81f4d

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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