drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 97 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:59 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

94 drawable flights of 97. 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

97 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
12:06 am	Call for service	17 min	`956f1a7c`
12:09 am	Call for service	13 min	`13d10c90`
12:53 am	Call for service	11 min	`36960618`
1:05 am	Call for service	16 min	`5d58644c`
1:08 am	Call for service	9 min	`a8efe5f6`
2:15 am	Call for service	18 min	`92c27dd2`
2:54 am	Call for service	12 min	`35f8e740`
3:15 am	Call for service	11 min	`88b022e4`
3:34 am	Call for service	6 min	`2929797e`
4:55 am	Call for service	17 min	`ca0f7330`
6:04 am	Call for service	4 min	`85bdb638`
7:25 am	Call for service	24 min	`f66abb9e`
7:47 am	Call for service	25 min	`515d5b64`
7:51 am	Call for service	10 min	`59566dc9`
7:59 am	Call for service	18 min	`3cf7310b`
8:08 am	Call for service	20 min	`d2f6fa52`
8:13 am	Call for service	8 min	`36978da6`
8:19 am	Call for service	19 min	`bd93e0f4`
8:42 am	Call for service	10 min	`9363f3d3`
8:53 am	Call for service	8 min	`b07505ab`
8:56 am	Call for service	8 min	`e0e0fad2`
8:56 am	Call for service	16 min	`376aa04a`
9:03 am	Call for service	4 min	`3f8c67b4`
9:10 am	Call for service	9 min	`f61cc609`
9:14 am	Call for service	9 min	`8209cb5a`
9:25 am	Call for service	20 min	`cb073441`
9:40 am	Call for service	19 min	`91e63a63`
10:24 am	Call for service	24 min	`8bfb18d8`
10:25 am	Call for service	15 min	`b3c4ff8e`
10:26 am	Call for service	19 min	`fa427abc`
10:44 am	Call for service	20 min	`8c011b63`
11:02 am	Call for service	20 min	`558dc554`
11:03 am	Call for service	22 min	`086e9bf5`
11:05 am	Call for service	14 min	`4264b8be`
11:21 am	Call for service	23 min	`edbb3612`
11:36 am	Call for service	22 min	`18a44d9f`
11:52 am	Call for service	21 min	`ed935ab6`
12:07 pm	Call for service	18 min	`c44db10f`
12:14 pm	Call for service	17 min	`1e5bdd4d`
12:16 pm	Call for service	8 min	`ea3b293f`
12:41 pm	Call for service	16 min	`ab9ab6e3`
12:50 pm	Call for service	15 min	`5d989b54`
1:09 pm	Call for service	15 min	`1c5894af`
1:25 pm	Call for service	17 min	`572f6ec1`
1:38 pm	Call for service	21 min	`0e67fee9`
1:42 pm	Call for service	7 min	`5cbd5ff6`
1:47 pm	Call for service	9 min	`ac0f649d`
2:27 pm	Call for service	12 min	`1d8d4378`
2:39 pm	Call for service	21 min	`964b205c`
2:41 pm	Call for service	19 min	`b04a4d5c`
2:55 pm	Call for service	13 min	`e5036e7b`
3:01 pm	Call for service	21 min	`6c99ddb8`
3:09 pm	Call for service	19 min	`a865fdd8`
3:23 pm	Call for service	16 min	`7ddac654`
3:28 pm	Call for service	21 min	`113c08fa`
3:34 pm	Call for service	22 min	`5448dd18`
3:41 pm	Call for service	21 min	`1078f0f3`
3:47 pm	Call for service	18 min	`51fa5296`
4:17 pm	Call for service	23 min	`d61a0d2d`
4:18 pm	Call for service	14 min	`df3cbe39`
4:21 pm	Call for service	19 min	`6020ec42`
4:28 pm	Call for service	15 min	`1f7cff50`
4:42 pm	Call for service	24 min	`7729e8e8`
4:56 pm	Call for service	10 min	`bf716297`
5:12 pm	Call for service	8 min	`bd37935b`
5:19 pm	Call for service	9 min	`c4d69fae`
5:31 pm	Call for service	7 min	`5f88ecfb`
5:34 pm	Call for service	18 min	`b0e968a1`
5:48 pm	Call for service	9 min	`cd68b872`
5:52 pm	Call for service	11 s	`b3fde665`
5:52 pm	Call for service	23 min	`d64f7fde`
6:04 pm	Call for service	6 min	`c2d610cd`
6:16 pm	Call for service	23 min	`b5397d74`
6:41 pm	Call for service	20 min	`82c7edf3`
6:49 pm	Call for service	15 min	`bb4ee14a`
7:04 pm	Call for service	16 min	`484b72f3`
7:10 pm	Call for service	7 min	`12be868f`
7:17 pm	Call for service	8 min	`2c91999b`
8:18 pm	Call for service	17 min	`66e27cce`
8:32 pm	Call for service	11 min	`bf6d7cb6`
8:38 pm	Call for service	8 min	`12ac1dca`
8:59 pm	Call for service	16 min	`5dca8152`
9:16 pm	Call for service	14 min	`f3b11e52`
9:26 pm	Call for service	13 min	`72cdb539`
9:30 pm	Call for service	7 min	`60376468`
9:49 pm	Call for service	15 min	`7acb89f3`
10:09 pm	Call for service	17 min	`8fa79dd0`
10:32 pm	Call for service	10 min	`f63a3a41`
10:36 pm	Call for service	9 min	`e1eff94d`
10:43 pm	Call for service	13 min	`94d5b74e`
11:03 pm	Call for service	4 min	`b78c6b95`
11:13 pm	Call for service	14 min	`5b265680`
11:21 pm	Call for service	18 min	`9c38edae`
11:29 pm	Call for service	21 min	`9ffaaf9b`
11:42 pm	Call for service	43 s	`6d831b02`
11:48 pm	Call for service	5 min	`6f61d5e9`
11:59 pm	Call for service	8 min	`d873b2fb`

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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