drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:49 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 99 times on Thursday 2 July 2026, the first at 12:24 am and the last at 11:49 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

99 drawable flights of 99. 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

99 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
12:24 am	Call for service	12 min	`c3f11508`
12:29 am	Call for service	10 min	`7d4d99f6`
12:42 am	Call for service	11 min	`f79d73a4`
12:56 am	Call for service	9 min	`8bd19cd5`
1:01 am	Call for service	11 min	`8e763c70`
1:08 am	Call for service	10 min	`826afba6`
1:24 am	Call for service	16 min	`aaff0574`
1:42 am	Call for service	18 min	`cc2f1a49`
1:47 am	Call for service	18 min	`101c87e7`
1:59 am	Call for service	9 min	`cd0bc6ea`
2:26 am	Call for service	11 min	`77069276`
2:38 am	Call for service	8 min	`b992d858`
4:49 am	Call for service	10 min	`f02bd355`
5:02 am	Call for service	20 min	`8d52f670`
5:19 am	Call for service	19 min	`ae8d0f66`
5:35 am	Call for service	21 min	`eefdc619`
5:52 am	Call for service	22 min	`54aaf462`
6:10 am	Call for service	13 min	`11fa6fd6`
6:21 am	Call for service	22 min	`49c8c18a`
6:24 am	Call for service	18 min	`6b406b71`
8:00 am	Call for service	14 min	`4133ba76`
8:02 am	Call for service	21 min	`9960deb9`
8:43 am	Call for service	1 min 23 s	`c2166cca`
8:55 am	Call for service	8 min	`a06d2851`
9:10 am	Call for service	1 min 28 s	`214acde8`
9:14 am	Call for service	9 min	`8706de12`
9:30 am	Call for service	13 min	`081591bc`
9:35 am	Call for service	8 min	`78eb027d`
9:51 am	Call for service	12 min	`32d759e9`
10:01 am	Call for service	1 min 43 s	`da9a6657`
10:04 am	Call for service	19 min	`539a1731`
10:14 am	Call for service	22 min	`52a3d067`
10:16 am	Call for service	1 min 59 s	`699a6ff9`
10:20 am	Call for service	21 min	`20ff1047`
10:28 am	Call for service	20 min	`021bb881`
10:32 am	Call for service	12 min	`b662b554`
10:38 am	Call for service	8 min	`ff00483a`
11:09 am	Call for service	19 min	`939e9cf3`
11:29 am	Call for service	12 min	`1f8cc9ea`
11:36 am	Call for service	20 min	`db38e472`
11:51 am	Call for service	9 min	`dd736e42`
11:52 am	Call for service	21 min	`332672de`
12:01 pm	Call for service	5 min	`5bd09971`
12:07 pm	Call for service	8 min	`4dc23c1f`
12:09 pm	Call for service	17 min	`386ab64a`
12:29 pm	Call for service	9 min	`7188acca`
12:36 pm	Call for service	17 min	`54708880`
12:40 pm	Call for service	11 min	`4e79c1ee`
12:52 pm	Call for service	10 min	`ac37d009`
1:04 pm	Call for service	8 min	`bf936ef5`
1:23 pm	Call for service	22 min	`77c094d5`
1:26 pm	Call for service	15 min	`c0061bc1`
1:40 pm	Call for service	1 min 19 s	`e604a0cd`
1:42 pm	Call for service	22 min	`cd7e8126`
1:49 pm	Call for service	15 min	`91dca95d`
1:50 pm	Call for service	17 min	`a5922b03`
2:30 pm	Call for service	12 min	`3c7a9218`
2:45 pm	Call for service	21 min	`ca0e963b`
3:05 pm	Call for service	16 min	`e1a92d03`
3:11 pm	Call for service	20 min	`43d48755`
3:13 pm	Call for service	8 min	`db1a028e`
3:24 pm	Call for service	18 min	`7bd5f53c`
3:34 pm	Call for service	7 min	`4a1a4c98`
3:53 pm	Call for service	19 min	`6d778737`
4:05 pm	Call for service	6 min	`fd2dca2a`
4:13 pm	Call for service	19 min	`7c5148d0`
4:16 pm	Call for service	6 min	`9b44a41f`
4:21 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2788d92a`
4:48 pm	Call for service	3 min	`14b3bab4`
4:58 pm	Call for service	12 min	`c3f5511b`
5:24 pm	Call for service	15 min	`9d88c388`
5:50 pm	Call for service	15 min	`8224349d`
5:58 pm	Call for service	11 min	`f38487bd`
6:20 pm	Call for service	10 min	`84ca5c38`
6:46 pm	Call for service	13 min	`fcd3181a`
7:05 pm	Call for service	8 min	`711c53f3`
7:36 pm	Call for service	7 min	`dd7ab8ec`
7:40 pm	Call for service	14 min	`2042522c`
7:43 pm	Call for service	7 min	`09b596b6`
7:53 pm	Call for service	12 min	`ca060f28`
7:55 pm	Call for service	16 min	`dc773414`
8:22 pm	Call for service	5 min	`596dcb96`
9:06 pm	Call for service	13 min	`0adf2e9e`
9:13 pm	Call for service	6 min	`815b95b2`
9:28 pm	Call for service	11 min	`4ec22827`
9:37 pm	Call for service	19 min	`a1764b4c`
9:47 pm	Call for service	9 min	`86fa0bf9`
9:58 pm	Call for service	7 min	`255695d0`
10:05 pm	Call for service	7 min	`9815c8ad`
10:08 pm	Call for service	11 min	`8e74c883`
10:34 pm	Call for service	16 min	`b8511da7`
10:39 pm	Call for service	54 s	`e1af2a9c`
10:41 pm	Call for service	9 min	`d960f570`
10:52 pm	Call for service	18 min	`03bddb38`
10:53 pm	Call for service	10 min	`e7ccbc70`
11:19 pm	Call for service	18 min	`79f392d1`
11:31 pm	Call for service	18 min	`75759e70`
11:43 pm	Call for service	17 min	`ac1f16aa`
11:49 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d8e534a9`

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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