drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 94 times on Saturday 18 July 2026, the first at 12:01 am and the last at 11:53 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

88 drawable flights of 94. 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

94 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
12:01 am	Call for service	9 min	`2455ccbc`
12:08 am	Call for service	11 min	`c714dbf8`
12:13 am	Call for service	13 min	`e29e481f`
12:22 am	Call for service	11 min	`a6119814`
12:34 am	Call for service	6 min	`d73aeb5e`
12:42 am	Call for service	9 min	`f3885166`
12:44 am	Call for service	15 min	`fd2fc295`
12:49 am	Call for service	12 min	`2ef5e41c`
12:57 am	Call for service	17 min	`6f1a32a3`
1:07 am	Call for service	16 min	`29eead1f`
1:10 am	Call for service	6 min	`4bfaab1b`
1:24 am	Call for service	11 min	`c8b0a457`
1:27 am	Call for service	10 min	`b9f1e231`
1:34 am	Call for service	8 min	`f1d7c2a0`
1:39 am	Call for service	13 min	`f349cf88`
1:53 am	Call for service	4 min	`c5e56f6c`
1:59 am	Call for service	19 min	`60c8bb88`
2:16 am	Call for service	11 min	`a0b4f3a6`
2:27 am	Call for service	4 min	`74887a94`
2:39 am	Call for service	15 min	`f356a079`
3:21 am	Call for service	11 min	`71732d39`
3:36 am	Call for service	14 min	`6af80620`
3:51 am	Call for service	15 min	`d043da09`
4:00 am	Call for service	13 min	`0517a127`
4:24 am	Call for service	13 min	`d03e3a83`
4:44 am	Call for service	8 min	`56ceab0d`
5:25 am	Call for service	19 min	`a317ba75`
6:15 am	Call for service	12 min	`5de43f6e`
7:58 am	Call for service	12 min	`8cf0f1a8`
9:08 am	Call for service	19 min	`7a645696`
9:43 am	Call for service	18 min	`c2e51f64`
9:44 am	Call for service	15 min	`f70ec5cb`
10:00 am	Call for service	8 min	`40e332f1`
10:20 am	Call for service	9 min	`602d6c21`
10:42 am	Call for service	5 min	`345ae9cc`
10:44 am	Call for service	18 min	`c696a69b`
10:48 am	Call for service	11 min	`5e3a5a98`
10:55 am	Call for service	5 min	`14dc7696`
11:01 am	Call for service	10 min	`da67def2`
11:25 am	Call for service	12 min	`d58d3772`
11:36 am	Call for service	8 min	`7fd55182`
11:37 am	Call for service	17 min	`ee690ecd`
11:42 am	Call for service	19 min	`a355f9f3`
11:44 am	Call for service	6 min	`3c874629`
11:51 am	Call for service	7 min	`8173c963`
12:03 pm	Call for service	17 min	`759b21fb`
12:20 pm	Call for service	23 min	`60e71167`
12:42 pm	Call for service	21 min	`1085fe32`
12:50 pm	Call for service	20 min	`92d172b2`
1:08 pm	Call for service	18 min	`05afe826`
1:18 pm	Call for service	21 min	`fa6e3562`
1:27 pm	Call for service	24 min	`c2bbfe39`
1:46 pm	Call for service	0 s	`99517f46`
2:02 pm	Call for service	0 s	`8761afac`
2:02 pm	Call for service	21 min	`699d7dab`
2:08 pm	Call for service	24 min	`db50fd9a`
2:13 pm	Call for service	20 min	`fdcddca0`
2:35 pm	Call for service	7 min	`64306eed`
3:39 pm	Call for service	14 min	`7294188f`
4:05 pm	Call for service	11 min	`97a46394`
4:33 pm	Call for service	4 min	`b3bc6cd5`
5:21 pm	Call for service	16 min	`d6a0b8bb`
5:50 pm	Call for service	1 min 38 s	`001aebab`
6:07 pm	Call for service	22 min	`f793a1ac`
6:38 pm	Call for service	1 min 35 s	`8b9348a3`
6:42 pm	Call for service	9 min	`72ff3ca2`
6:43 pm	Call for service	20 min	`064b213a`
6:44 pm	Call for service	21 min	`28312876`
6:56 pm	Call for service	7 min	`4eadb1d6`
7:03 pm	Call for service	11 min	`505f4e15`
7:17 pm	Call for service	14 min	`ac718fa2`
7:20 pm	Call for service	16 min	`94aa4e7f`
7:32 pm	Call for service	14 min	`6f3d6665`
7:45 pm	Call for service	10 min	`72fe69a9`
7:46 pm	Call for service	17 min	`f8ab4d6e`
7:49 pm	Call for service	17 min	`9992c167`
7:53 pm	Call for service	9 min	`b7414e8b`
8:08 pm	Call for service	9 min	`e0ef170c`
8:40 pm	Call for service	12 min	`4480fc47`
8:53 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2c3a90ed`
8:57 pm	Call for service	15 min	`f58e8eca`
9:07 pm	Call for service	16 min	`efb61a26`
9:15 pm	Call for service	20 min	`429f418f`
9:24 pm	Call for service	8 min	`52742d79`
9:30 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d834c55e`
9:43 pm	Call for service	20 min	`453d5833`
9:58 pm	Call for service	8 min	`f03d251f`
10:06 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d019ec74`
10:09 pm	Call for service	18 min	`6f10471b`
11:10 pm	Call for service	13 min	`6c62e8c7`
11:26 pm	Call for service	19 min	`36f29d0c`
11:40 pm	Call for service	18 min	`a3dfbb8a`
11:51 pm	Call for service	1 min 49 s	`eebde682`
11:53 pm	Call for service	14 min	`4e8d6117`

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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