drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:42 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 93 times on Thursday 23 April 2026, the first at 12:00 am and the last at 11:42 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

85 drawable flights of 93. 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

Call for service100%

Flights, in order

93 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
12:00 am	Call for service	11 min	`1cd539a7`
12:13 am	Call for service	15 min	`5540598a`
12:45 am	Call for service	10 min	`e8a78faa`
1:00 am	Call for service	8 min	`f47afae9`
1:25 am	Call for service	6 min	`60a4c922`
2:29 am	Call for service	21 min	`739f4bd0`
2:43 am	Call for service	18 min	`0ff5e911`
2:54 am	Call for service	22 min	`be6b5364`
3:08 am	Call for service	19 min	`fa10145d`
5:04 am	Call for service	15 min	`67adf5c7`
6:26 am	Call for service	20 min	`9c704726`
6:28 am	Call for service	18 min	`985e534c`
6:44 am	Call for service	20 min	`9d1a88e6`
7:00 am	Call for service	24 min	`5826abc7`
7:21 am	Call for service	18 min	`687f055b`
7:47 am	Call for service	9 min	`dce880a2`
8:01 am	Call for service	10 min	`758fe49e`
8:36 am	Call for service	24 min	`e4e23289`
8:57 am	Call for service	20 min	`149a8ddb`
9:15 am	Call for service	5 min	`3302be97`
9:56 am	Call for service	21 min	`9754ea73`
10:04 am	Call for service	14 min	`92ceaf89`
10:17 am	Call for service	19 min	`fcfebe59`
10:36 am	Call for service	20 min	`08904403`
10:42 am	Call for service	20 min	`dbde60a2`
10:53 am	Call for service	25 min	`f853a68b`
10:58 am	Call for service	6 min	`6b92f911`
11:01 am	Call for service	20 min	`a193a7da`
11:06 am	Call for service	5 min	`b5e9cba9`
11:14 am	Call for service	16 min	`057cf45f`
11:14 am	Call for service	25 min	`874d041f`
11:35 am	Call for service	24 min	`59d87c04`
11:48 am	Call for service	19 min	`29e62b9c`
11:56 am	Call for service	0 s	`3991a979`
12:11 pm	Call for service	8 min	`bdf40729`
12:15 pm	Call for service	22 s	`585c3236`
12:16 pm	Call for service	6 min	`94163ba8`
12:21 pm	Call for service	13 min	`8c2bb1d6`
12:36 pm	Call for service	10 min	`83aad985`
12:43 pm	Call for service	8 min	`6332c5aa`
12:51 pm	Call for service	20 min	`10482993`
1:15 pm	Call for service	1 min 46 s	`d03e4555`
1:16 pm	Call for service	18 min	`b05301ed`
1:17 pm	Call for service	10 min	`c0547d25`
1:26 pm	Call for service	14 min	`75a0013e`
1:28 pm	Call for service	1 min 02 s	`4e0abc84`
1:42 pm	Call for service	21 min	`8634ca3a`
1:52 pm	Call for service	10 min	`01be49b4`
2:06 pm	Call for service	6 min	`5588d235`
2:12 pm	Call for service	19 min	`588e48a7`
2:50 pm	Call for service	17 min	`2ab687ea`
2:59 pm	Call for service	11 min	`092ef825`
3:18 pm	Call for service	19 min	`f54bb5e1`
3:30 pm	Call for service	9 min	`c7c89063`
3:40 pm	Call for service	18 min	`5e485e63`
3:48 pm	Call for service	11 min	`145cfeb8`
3:48 pm	Call for service	11 min	`b3ca1db2`
4:03 pm	Call for service	19 min	`47f8bcff`
4:08 pm	Call for service	20 min	`fa1d297b`
4:09 pm	Call for service	19 min	`f0d1e417`
4:28 pm	Call for service	14 min	`194a930c`
4:30 pm	Call for service	15 min	`068524ec`
4:37 pm	Call for service	21 min	`1e192d60`
4:42 pm	Call for service	10 min	`f27f3ddd`
4:51 pm	Call for service	18 min	`3b85e852`
4:58 pm	Call for service	12 min	`0d8601eb`
5:04 pm	Call for service	15 min	`efe91eef`
5:05 pm	Call for service	12 min	`1cf3d4c1`
5:11 pm	Call for service	16 min	`837a9f2b`
5:23 pm	Call for service	8 min	`80681c8a`
5:34 pm	Call for service	9 min	`6ffaa08f`
5:43 pm	Call for service	7 min	`cf88162d`
5:44 pm	Call for service	12 min	`353c0a85`
5:47 pm	Call for service	17 min	`49355058`
6:07 pm	Call for service	15 min	`5514e7a7`
6:22 pm	Call for service	19 min	`0c05ecb8`
6:33 pm	Call for service	9 min	`cdd9c512`
6:44 pm	Call for service	6 min	`7f902c0f`
6:52 pm	Call for service	15 min	`4b504fa4`
8:19 pm	Call for service	25 min	`7ab05f8a`
8:25 pm	Call for service	22 min	`f2c308ee`
8:46 pm	Call for service	21 min	`f750c6e4`
8:52 pm	Call for service	14 min	`7a1921b8`
9:05 pm	Call for service	10 min	`3459ad1d`
9:09 pm	Call for service	22 min	`59360222`
9:47 pm	Call for service	7 min	`012370e0`
10:06 pm	Call for service	9 min	`17f8369a`
10:14 pm	Call for service	8 min	`b41b5682`
10:17 pm	Call for service	13 min	`f3127e0a`
10:31 pm	Call for service	17 min	`d75e1cd1`
11:06 pm	Call for service	17 min	`dbe72823`
11:07 pm	Call for service	5 min	`d0f6ca24`
11:42 pm	Call for service	18 min	`f147c23e`

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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