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Cincinnati, Ohio · one day

Monday 4 May 2026

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

50

drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

7:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:56 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 50 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 7:53 am and the last at 11:56 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

50 drawable flights of 50. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service100%

Flights, in order

50 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:53 amCall for service16 minc6bf321d
8:05 amCall for service5 min238d30d9
8:13 amCall for service16 min3fbcb514
8:38 amCall for service7 mindf8fece8
9:32 amCall for service7 minf01e39b3
9:49 amCall for service21 min789e955c
10:07 amCall for service5 min90c12200
10:55 amCall for service19 mine766f83e
11:48 amCall for service17 min72b6bded
11:57 amCall for service15 min3a4f1deb
12:05 pmCall for service9 min724e3ab2
12:17 pmCall for service16 mind7af858f
12:44 pmCall for service10 min5236ab1c
12:48 pmCall for service11 min4bd1d182
1:07 pmCall for service20 min02973801
1:28 pmCall for service16 min03cc64e7
1:41 pmCall for service15 min0b0e4ffd
2:11 pmCall for service17 mind19ae1f6
2:22 pmCall for service4 min7e534cea
2:30 pmCall for service12 min7cf27dbc
2:37 pmCall for service19 min690008f6
2:50 pmCall for service18 min821a694b
2:59 pmCall for service8 min6fe05382
3:16 pmCall for service9 min7f0d7185
3:49 pmCall for service13 min2e6ad4cf
3:50 pmCall for service14 min6eb5969e
4:42 pmCall for service21 min664f4475
5:07 pmCall for service10 min04981ff5
5:21 pmCall for service22 min399364cb
5:30 pmCall for service6 min9e190195
5:37 pmCall for service20 min1bb49981
5:39 pmCall for service3 mine4dda424
5:43 pmCall for service7 min001bc014
6:28 pmCall for service23 min31186a45
7:01 pmCall for service4 min59a61a59
7:11 pmCall for service13 min3b5af11e
7:12 pmCall for service6 mina4d4cab0
7:26 pmCall for service8 min574c3b6f
7:38 pmCall for service9 mindd503c9a
8:04 pmCall for service16 min4f064b13
8:17 pmCall for service16 min279c9ec4
8:19 pmCall for service15 min4eb6e4c9
8:48 pmCall for service11 min10834ba1
9:10 pmCall for service9 min2f6244c4
9:16 pmCall for service6 mind1e1229a
10:17 pmCall for service8 mincfb6169f
10:28 pmCall for service9 min66fba26c
11:21 pmCall for service5 min778564b8
11:24 pmCall for service17 minb73bfd92
11:56 pmCall for service8 min0d129216

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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