172

drone flights over Cincinnati that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cincinnati police drones flew 172 times on Wednesday 30 September 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 11:27 pm EDT, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record.

172 drawable flights of 172. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

Call for service100%

Flights, in order

172 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
12:08 am	Call for service	11 min	`c3724f3f`
12:31 am	Call for service	19 min	`bd91a5ab`
12:46 am	Call for service	1 min 41 s	`862df26c`
12:46 am	Call for service	15 min	`5ecc9c90`
12:49 am	Call for service	12 min	`19dfbfd8`
12:51 am	Call for service	16 min	`0e350ed7`
1:13 am	Call for service	18 min	`6a05dc1e`
1:18 am	Call for service	7 min	`ba4f12f8`
1:28 am	Call for service	50 s	`e692ff6d`
1:51 am	Call for service	19 min	`fff8521f`
2:09 am	Call for service	17 min	`91b2b006`
2:28 am	Call for service	16 min	`9b9a5288`
3:12 am	Call for service	13 min	`e0a3b5a8`
6:24 am	Call for service	6 min	`8ee1ad65`
6:30 am	Call for service	10 min	`ffe937bd`
6:37 am	Call for service	7 min	`0b858d93`
6:49 am	Call for service	8 min	`6c316e1a`
6:54 am	Call for service	12 min	`1cbb11df`
7:09 am	Call for service	8 min	`62396054`
7:20 am	Call for service	15 min	`9aefcea0`
7:30 am	Call for service	5 min	`8d639890`
7:31 am	Call for service	4 min	`89bdab33`
7:36 am	Call for service	6 min	`119e22ab`
7:37 am	Call for service	6 min	`9170cb3b`
7:39 am	Call for service	3 min	`5d30091e`
7:45 am	Call for service	6 min	`cdd925ef`
7:46 am	Call for service	7 min	`f6de4fd0`
7:55 am	Call for service	12 min	`51f3a23e`
8:04 am	Call for service	10 min	`416a457e`
8:19 am	Call for service	7 min	`c6940e00`
8:21 am	Call for service	5 min	`0f1521de`
8:25 am	Call for service	18 min	`4fd5a93e`
8:30 am	Call for service	7 min	`8186646d`
8:31 am	Call for service	6 min	`88b41b04`
8:42 am	Call for service	5 min	`5ce15f0c`
8:43 am	Call for service	3 min	`186ec5a8`
8:47 am	Call for service	12 min	`5fae809d`
8:48 am	Call for service	5 min	`d38981ec`
8:49 am	Call for service	5 min	`9ce8717d`
9:09 am	Call for service	17 min	`ed8c9f7e`
9:19 am	Call for service	15 min	`a7950619`
9:45 am	Call for service	5 min	`36412c4c`
9:53 am	Call for service	7 min	`19e94053`
10:00 am	Call for service	18 min	`40996696`
10:01 am	Call for service	13 min	`53182ebb`
10:25 am	Call for service	10 min	`99f02d5f`
10:29 am	Call for service	6 min	`66a8457d`
10:35 am	Call for service	8 min	`d489fc21`
10:37 am	Call for service	6 min	`a4c2ac35`
10:43 am	Call for service	7 min	`eb0fea6f`
10:43 am	Call for service	5 min	`87bda122`
11:03 am	Call for service	14 min	`e67db081`
11:05 am	Call for service	6 min	`31910fc7`
11:15 am	Call for service	14 min	`140cb2bb`
11:19 am	Call for service	14 min	`f0ae0668`
11:29 am	Call for service	5 min	`b5fa57b1`
11:30 am	Call for service	6 min	`cd0d61e6`
11:31 am	Call for service	4 min	`30e4de86`
11:32 am	Call for service	16 min	`5f0ea7c6`
11:33 am	Call for service	13 min	`22304794`
11:34 am	Call for service	3 min	`051bd558`
11:35 am	Call for service	9 min	`2e0802e7`
11:39 am	Call for service	6 min	`4e3a3650`
11:40 am	Call for service	6 min	`c60a472d`
11:41 am	Call for service	6 min	`914152b2`
11:45 am	Call for service	17 min	`530a1495`
11:49 am	Call for service	6 min	`57be4440`
11:50 am	Call for service	5 min	`f7a384a9`
12:01 pm	Call for service	12 min	`fee27348`
12:09 pm	Call for service	12 min	`402edac8`
12:11 pm	Call for service	7 min	`dc217df7`
12:19 pm	Call for service	7 min	`b879ddda`
12:36 pm	Call for service	18 min	`921928e6`
12:42 pm	Call for service	9 min	`fae42d4b`
12:45 pm	Call for service	8 min	`718e6518`
12:54 pm	Call for service	9 min	`eff63ea2`
12:54 pm	Call for service	9 min	`80400d04`
12:56 pm	Call for service	8 min	`4dd5701c`
1:11 pm	Call for service	20 min	`bb365f6d`
1:13 pm	Call for service	6 min	`a734f8a3`
1:32 pm	Call for service	23 min	`3830d486`
1:36 pm	Call for service	9 min	`16067eb9`
1:45 pm	Call for service	21 min	`d5ed106e`
2:02 pm	Call for service	17 min	`00a0df13`
2:13 pm	Call for service	12 min	`dcdac3df`
2:16 pm	Call for service	7 min	`deefd9fc`
2:18 pm	Call for service	5 min	`0236db6b`
2:25 pm	Call for service	13 min	`82d1e64d`
2:33 pm	Call for service	7 min	`8927540e`
2:36 pm	Call for service	5 min	`0ca6b84b`
2:38 pm	Call for service	2 min	`e1766e6e`
2:43 pm	Call for service	7 min	`d0d14d37`
2:47 pm	Call for service	7 min	`714321f2`
2:50 pm	Call for service	6 min	`740c8be5`
3:04 pm	Call for service	8 min	`33b84246`
3:05 pm	Call for service	11 min	`1c1fa74c`
3:07 pm	Call for service	6 min	`64da3c51`
3:11 pm	Call for service	6 min	`c35ab72f`
3:17 pm	Call for service	13 min	`847dc9e2`
3:25 pm	Call for service	4 min	`2c014316`
3:26 pm	Call for service	2 min	`35c2760c`
3:35 pm	Call for service	14 min	`03774de2`
3:37 pm	Call for service	7 min	`b393c69f`
3:38 pm	Call for service	11 min	`3c6d2630`
3:40 pm	Call for service	2 min	`a31651e6`
3:43 pm	Call for service	6 min	`b4b61811`
3:46 pm	Call for service	8 min	`b2e2e239`
3:52 pm	Call for service	6 min	`3a036d23`
3:54 pm	Call for service	19 min	`7cee4fe5`
3:57 pm	Call for service	8 min	`6e257024`
4:00 pm	Call for service	6 min	`47bada81`
4:03 pm	Call for service	5 min	`654daa4e`
4:04 pm	Call for service	16 min	`9c398fc2`
4:14 pm	Call for service	1 min 45 s	`fbadb5b7`
4:24 pm	Call for service	19 min	`343ccafe`
4:34 pm	Call for service	13 min	`431c77b5`
4:36 pm	Call for service	6 min	`a5082915`
4:38 pm	Call for service	7 min	`17e06979`
4:44 pm	Call for service	14 min	`2427a8ec`
5:03 pm	Call for service	6 min	`30ab225a`
5:04 pm	Call for service	16 min	`f9f5d7ff`
5:08 pm	Call for service	20 min	`99b50852`
5:10 pm	Call for service	3 min	`9f278569`
5:13 pm	Call for service	18 min	`b7f43286`
5:16 pm	Call for service	5 min	`3fd78af3`
5:25 pm	Call for service	16 min	`4bd7aad2`
5:33 pm	Call for service	40 s	`29142ffc`
5:44 pm	Call for service	8 min	`a6f84afd`
6:00 pm	Call for service	19 min	`c37362f1`
6:02 pm	Call for service	9 min	`3498c76c`
6:05 pm	Call for service	3 min	`15ffce8b`
6:06 pm	Call for service	5 min	`6f0c387c`
6:22 pm	Call for service	23 min	`086747fe`
6:33 pm	Call for service	15 min	`1739adb9`
6:45 pm	Call for service	16 min	`051718c6`
6:48 pm	Call for service	9 min	`f5f5aa7e`
6:51 pm	Call for service	9 min	`d52c01b4`
7:05 pm	Call for service	11 min	`a3e2e6e3`
7:07 pm	Call for service	2 min	`a77284c0`
7:08 pm	Call for service	2 min	`013d23b3`
7:16 pm	Call for service	17 min	`cd12320e`
7:25 pm	Call for service	5 min	`d4480026`
7:29 pm	Call for service	16 min	`3507eef2`
7:32 pm	Call for service	13 min	`6b1ddc7e`
7:35 pm	Call for service	5 min	`b67c5a00`
7:47 pm	Call for service	7 min	`cf93bf1a`
8:05 pm	Call for service	17 min	`fcd9c372`
8:06 pm	Call for service	19 min	`cb6b8b1b`
8:12 pm	Call for service	15 min	`445b4792`
8:17 pm	Call for service	17 min	`c962c7fa`
8:18 pm	Call for service	1 min 54 s	`beaf0f35`
8:23 pm	Call for service	18 min	`ccc711a1`
8:45 pm	Call for service	6 min	`65cf1d28`
8:50 pm	Call for service	8 min	`3a4e091f`
8:53 pm	Call for service	13 min	`84765365`
9:00 pm	Call for service	7 min	`297a5994`
9:22 pm	Call for service	20 min	`cdf310d9`
9:24 pm	Call for service	5 min	`68da429e`
9:32 pm	Call for service	1 min 37 s	`051afa5a`
9:33 pm	Call for service	16 min	`1d3fa327`
9:37 pm	Call for service	8 min	`28d4c558`
9:37 pm	Call for service	9 min	`29536b07`
9:52 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d66efb91`
9:55 pm	Call for service	5 min	`7cda3b52`
10:21 pm	Call for service	8 min	`45bb8452`
10:26 pm	Call for service	15 min	`0b1c8c75`
10:32 pm	Call for service	13 min	`8289dcb9`
10:48 pm	Call for service	11 min	`e19e94ba`
10:51 pm	Call for service	16 min	`6e08faeb`
11:00 pm	Call for service	4 min	`a52b4add`
11:16 pm	Call for service	6 min	`a62bdff4`
11:27 pm	Call for service	13 min	`46b99509`

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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