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Cincinnati, Ohio · one day

Thursday 7 May 2026

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

53

drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:02 am

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

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 53 times on Thursday 7 May 2026, the first at 12:02 am and the last at 11:42 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

53 drawable flights of 53. 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

53 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
12:02 amCall for service12 min949ed348
12:07 amCall for service13 mind3b154de
12:52 amCall for service7 min0a627a8a
1:08 amCall for service7 mind9ebe1d4
1:18 amCall for service4 min2b15e9de
1:20 amCall for service13 minf088ff86
2:02 amCall for service12 minb9674349
2:07 amCall for service7 mind72ad2e2
2:14 amCall for service17 min113e0684
3:01 amCall for service6 mineaaf4018
3:31 amCall for service14 minc52f6c2a
8:08 amCall for service13 minb09ae2f7
8:49 amCall for service12 minfb35c1f1
9:17 amCall for service11 min00bdd1ca
9:23 amCall for service3 min5a2daae8
9:37 amCall for service10 mine1c5f2b0
9:41 amCall for service8 min05066f2d
9:51 amCall for service6 minae7dbc0e
9:53 amCall for service5 mina4ad6c20
10:00 amCall for service15 min223497e0
10:02 amCall for service6 min55706061
10:19 amCall for service16 min45b73e8e
10:48 amCall for service11 min5d769ff6
11:04 amCall for service4 mind77b047c
12:56 pmCall for service11 min1f6b6bf9
1:20 pmCall for service16 min840ebb82
1:47 pmCall for service18 min871e536a
2:06 pmCall for service9 min3f5d9a1f
3:21 pmCall for service20 min385338be
3:58 pmCall for service5 minf56bb5b0
3:58 pmCall for service18 min4c8d5ed5
4:19 pmCall for service18 min46a83c8f
4:47 pmCall for service16 minc95de371
4:55 pmCall for service9 min19a857b0
5:59 pmCall for service11 min69b3f6d2
6:13 pmCall for service20 min1f09ed65
6:26 pmCall for service15 minf8a8e653
6:40 pmCall for service14 min6ef3a4b8
6:59 pmCall for service17 min9d5fdca0
7:33 pmCall for service6 mine31a1e09
7:51 pmCall for service15 minac233097
8:10 pmCall for service8 min8bf0d25d
8:34 pmCall for service5 minc433e8a7
8:41 pmCall for service18 min74341a24
8:51 pmCall for service21 min0c10363a
9:14 pmCall for service19 min1c61e9ab
9:30 pmCall for service7 min0554ccc9
9:52 pmCall for service8 min7a318056
10:25 pmCall for service9 minac7edc0e
10:41 pmCall for service15 mine4c1931e
11:15 pmCall for service10 min30e23bb6
11:37 pmCall for service12 mind324ecba
11:42 pmCall for service11 minbe09ad4e

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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