drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

6:00 am

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

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 97 times on Monday 24 August 2026, the first at 6:00 am and the last at 11:49 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

97 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
6:00 am	Call for service	22 min	`9c27d0bd`
6:21 am	Call for service	16 min	`733d4559`
6:59 am	Call for service	12 min	`a3e7c391`
7:21 am	Call for service	10 min	`7ca58d7f`
7:39 am	Call for service	21 min	`24509404`
7:58 am	Call for service	5 min	`b7ed9111`
8:17 am	Call for service	12 min	`b6b998ef`
8:35 am	Call for service	13 min	`a960d922`
8:36 am	Call for service	22 min	`62a1aa93`
8:52 am	Call for service	22 min	`06bb540e`
9:27 am	Call for service	7 min	`2a5c8eb9`
9:34 am	Call for service	13 min	`52b19cd3`
9:46 am	Call for service	12 min	`b8da4ba5`
9:46 am	Call for service	11 min	`46b3cf84`
9:48 am	Call for service	21 min	`49876eb4`
10:13 am	Call for service	16 min	`8b2350ec`
10:13 am	Call for service	14 min	`b90ed322`
10:16 am	Call for service	5 min	`efa0761e`
10:29 am	Call for service	5 min	`2c53839e`
10:47 am	Call for service	21 min	`34d7d93a`
11:13 am	Call for service	11 min	`baeee476`
11:25 am	Call for service	17 min	`eb5f1dde`
11:32 am	Call for service	16 min	`5b4fa75c`
11:36 am	Call for service	15 min	`f4c53d7d`
11:43 am	Call for service	10 min	`3310aed0`
11:48 am	Call for service	20 min	`32f46860`
11:56 am	Call for service	13 min	`16ad7b8f`
12:08 pm	Call for service	15 min	`2ef044b6`
12:12 pm	Call for service	20 min	`2ea15125`
12:18 pm	Call for service	22 min	`473cd0b5`
12:22 pm	Call for service	22 min	`81a1e083`
12:27 pm	Call for service	18 min	`40bc881c`
12:32 pm	Call for service	16 min	`116270e5`
12:39 pm	Call for service	21 min	`c2a82450`
12:44 pm	Call for service	16 min	`4672bf07`
12:49 pm	Call for service	16 min	`9327eca4`
1:01 pm	Call for service	8 min	`4b533da6`
1:23 pm	Call for service	11 min	`2b24796f`
1:35 pm	Call for service	16 min	`8c20ea51`
2:15 pm	Call for service	18 min	`d2970e65`
2:15 pm	Call for service	15 min	`35ba6149`
2:16 pm	Call for service	12 min	`758765ab`
2:30 pm	Call for service	13 min	`0e45c30f`
2:38 pm	Call for service	14 min	`41a469b7`
2:50 pm	Call for service	16 min	`22a08d67`
2:56 pm	Call for service	13 min	`26156619`
2:57 pm	Call for service	20 min	`394b5669`
3:03 pm	Call for service	6 min	`5ea5e413`
3:11 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d0425c35`
3:17 pm	Call for service	13 min	`98bb8195`
3:25 pm	Call for service	19 min	`91360573`
3:30 pm	Call for service	13 min	`fcbd5d72`
3:30 pm	Call for service	17 min	`763159a2`
3:35 pm	Call for service	11 min	`81b27795`
3:46 pm	Call for service	14 min	`e6e7d063`
3:48 pm	Call for service	10 min	`46e2b3e4`
3:54 pm	Call for service	12 min	`e37106d1`
4:01 pm	Call for service	8 min	`6fe8c1b8`
4:10 pm	Call for service	11 min	`16d502fa`
4:25 pm	Call for service	19 min	`0d5d22b0`
4:31 pm	Call for service	18 min	`c542fcdf`
4:50 pm	Call for service	18 min	`bd22a075`
4:53 pm	Call for service	13 min	`4dc3612f`
5:10 pm	Call for service	8 min	`bfdb9487`
5:11 pm	Call for service	10 min	`7b43fb2f`
5:15 pm	Call for service	17 min	`ae0022f3`
5:26 pm	Call for service	7 min	`30c0c1e7`
6:13 pm	Call for service	20 min	`914046e1`
6:41 pm	Call for service	9 min	`04e5372c`
7:00 pm	Call for service	1 min 41 s	`a00a04c4`
7:13 pm	Call for service	20 min	`ef2915b4`
7:23 pm	Call for service	3 min	`d78cbab3`
7:29 pm	Call for service	11 min	`c2426275`
7:33 pm	Call for service	13 min	`82edcd58`
7:45 pm	Call for service	1 min 24 s	`1fd9eae4`
7:52 pm	Call for service	21 min	`d5673711`
7:54 pm	Call for service	17 min	`5d1fc49a`
7:58 pm	Call for service	9 min	`820f845b`
8:01 pm	Call for service	13 min	`f877e71f`
8:07 pm	Call for service	14 min	`67305998`
8:18 pm	Call for service	14 min	`929e7698`
8:28 pm	Call for service	17 min	`c9d2a532`
8:31 pm	Call for service	14 min	`e21473ee`
8:46 pm	Call for service	14 min	`948c88a0`
8:50 pm	Call for service	19 min	`841242ba`
9:04 pm	Call for service	12 min	`3b04e065`
9:09 pm	Call for service	18 min	`848c500c`
9:24 pm	Call for service	16 min	`40a2a896`
9:34 pm	Call for service	20 min	`8ba138ee`
9:58 pm	Call for service	20 min	`b8c9532b`
10:14 pm	Call for service	13 min	`1c27fc25`
10:26 pm	Call for service	5 min	`690dd68a`
10:34 pm	Call for service	11 min	`9d4a1325`
10:50 pm	Call for service	12 min	`8b78fe95`
11:02 pm	Call for service	11 min	`a9f98fe5`
11:26 pm	Call for service	9 min	`f9c3d420`
11:49 pm	Call for service	11 min	`e36baa5c`

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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