drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:43 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 89 times on Tuesday 15 September 2026, the first at 12:04 am and the last at 11:43 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

89 drawable flights of 89. 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

89 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
12:04 am	Call for service	10 min	`6f45e187`
12:13 am	Call for service	11 min	`2e4fc2be`
12:16 am	Call for service	15 min	`43bc34c2`
12:33 am	Call for service	9 min	`ec1c2107`
12:43 am	Call for service	19 min	`a23a0bd2`
12:59 am	Call for service	4 min	`0046a979`
1:03 am	Call for service	7 min	`63d39003`
1:09 am	Call for service	17 min	`58d5e163`
1:14 am	Call for service	16 min	`8e3d60a2`
1:30 am	Call for service	12 min	`34f73352`
1:36 am	Call for service	3 min	`ea0d7663`
1:40 am	Call for service	8 min	`24765a16`
1:54 am	Call for service	17 min	`1b7f6cca`
2:12 am	Call for service	16 min	`a744f5f1`
2:25 am	Call for service	18 min	`cb0a1bd2`
2:44 am	Call for service	12 min	`e8dcc5ad`
2:57 am	Call for service	4 min	`deaeec6c`
3:39 am	Call for service	7 min	`f3eed1c4`
4:18 am	Call for service	12 min	`cabbadbb`
6:12 am	Call for service	17 min	`434f8318`
7:22 am	Call for service	8 min	`a72002a1`
7:30 am	Call for service	11 min	`cfc22bd4`
7:43 am	Call for service	21 min	`0e865efa`
8:07 am	Call for service	15 min	`4dbfcc7d`
8:14 am	Call for service	1 min 55 s	`8c98dbfd`
8:19 am	Call for service	16 min	`17d3584a`
8:25 am	Call for service	18 min	`81584521`
8:26 am	Call for service	7 min	`1e2d1975`
8:35 am	Call for service	15 min	`ad81aecf`
8:44 am	Call for service	1 min 40 s	`7185329f`
8:48 am	Call for service	16 min	`986167e3`
9:13 am	Call for service	19 min	`f85b2025`
9:25 am	Call for service	18 min	`3de44fb5`
9:38 am	Call for service	9 min	`b1343094`
9:41 am	Call for service	13 min	`9ad886cb`
9:47 am	Call for service	4 min	`ea4e4a6d`
9:55 am	Call for service	5 min	`45b79acb`
9:56 am	Call for service	13 min	`3fed6651`
10:10 am	Call for service	5 min	`54478b5d`
10:10 am	Call for service	4 min	`ef24105b`
10:14 am	Call for service	5 min	`937882e3`
10:47 am	Call for service	4 min	`0eafe773`
10:48 am	Call for service	1 min 55 s	`bbe916f0`
10:48 am	Call for service	7 min	`5d4d5681`
11:09 am	Call for service	3 min	`05a56ee4`
11:13 am	Call for service	9 min	`570a26d6`
12:20 pm	Call for service	16 min	`594664b2`
12:22 pm	Call for service	5 min	`de957dc2`
12:43 pm	Call for service	15 min	`b457525a`
12:45 pm	Call for service	9 min	`d717f09a`
1:15 pm	Call for service	12 min	`1c4b59a1`
1:18 pm	Call for service	16 min	`4faf59ed`
1:43 pm	Call for service	10 min	`dee8b4de`
1:51 pm	Call for service	19 min	`e3fd6738`
2:02 pm	Call for service	10 min	`f5195a41`
2:07 pm	Call for service	16 min	`7922b6af`
2:35 pm	Call for service	22 min	`e66f9268`
3:01 pm	Call for service	12 min	`bd42d639`
3:07 pm	Call for service	18 min	`8751a43b`
3:16 pm	Call for service	6 min	`7df8765b`
3:21 pm	Call for service	9 min	`29017470`
3:34 pm	Call for service	12 min	`fc971c88`
3:41 pm	Call for service	13 min	`f86c4415`
4:07 pm	Call for service	10 min	`5e5d72e9`
4:26 pm	Call for service	18 min	`aff0ef35`
4:39 pm	Call for service	16 min	`a62e1d25`
5:00 pm	Call for service	9 min	`489f6a26`
5:03 pm	Call for service	10 min	`592081da`
5:26 pm	Call for service	18 min	`882fa26f`
5:38 pm	Call for service	17 min	`0890c6b0`
6:15 pm	Call for service	14 min	`c721e4f2`
6:54 pm	Call for service	15 min	`f6736c56`
7:10 pm	Call for service	5 min	`6edc7ed0`
7:28 pm	Call for service	10 min	`cb84a3c9`
8:30 pm	Call for service	15 min	`d0a09e0f`
8:57 pm	Call for service	15 min	`04e0d2df`
9:20 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2fdb1dfa`
9:40 pm	Call for service	14 min	`07151ee2`
9:53 pm	Call for service	11 min	`24df5f9c`
10:01 pm	Call for service	8 min	`98779b44`
10:13 pm	Call for service	5 min	`0d3b4368`
10:14 pm	Call for service	17 min	`d1dc0f84`
10:36 pm	Call for service	8 min	`acd7efe4`
10:36 pm	Call for service	12 min	`e9e3aa72`
11:05 pm	Call for service	8 min	`c0648d4f`
11:14 pm	Call for service	12 min	`c8e8f084`
11:22 pm	Call for service	13 min	`fbdb8a07`
11:39 pm	Call for service	11 min	`6238bae7`
11:43 pm	Call for service	17 min	`60b9040c`

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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