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Cincinnati, Ohio

Downtown, August 2025

A neighborhood page. 118 of the 24,106 flights in Cincinnati Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2025.

118

drone flights crossed Downtown.

118

of them in August 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 118 times between 1 August 2025 and 29 August 2025, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2025.

118 of the 118 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 2025. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

27 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

1% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 118 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 Aug 20258:29 amCall for service5 min3a1dfa62
Fri 1 Aug 20259:32 amCall for service8 mina54e63c8
Fri 1 Aug 20252:14 pmCall for service12 min5c533659
Fri 1 Aug 20252:16 pmCall for service13 min23f57cb7
Mon 4 Aug 20253:42 pmCall for service20 mincc71b81c
Mon 4 Aug 20254:03 pmCall for service14 min13468f2a
Mon 4 Aug 20255:05 pmCall for service20 minaf39be14
Wed 6 Aug 202510:20 amCall for service6 min58779197
Wed 6 Aug 202512:24 pmCall for service16 min884326d1
Wed 6 Aug 20252:35 pmCall for service21 minedd3aeee
Wed 6 Aug 20252:55 pmCall for service11 min17f7477d
Thu 7 Aug 202512:50 pmCall for service17 min6741beb5
Thu 7 Aug 20252:57 pmCall for service13 min877e68aa
Thu 7 Aug 20254:56 pmCall for service5 minf23e2934
Fri 8 Aug 20258:02 amCall for service11 min7c63a53a
Fri 8 Aug 20253:14 pmCall for service13 mine0594758
Fri 8 Aug 20255:37 pmCall for service14 min1ae1cf16
Fri 8 Aug 20256:10 pmCall for service12 min0823edca
Fri 8 Aug 20256:31 pmCall for service21 min5d143a09
Fri 8 Aug 20256:53 pmCall for service21 min92856d8b
Fri 8 Aug 20257:44 pmCall for service19 minc2576685
Fri 8 Aug 20258:38 pmCall for service13 min7a200d21
Fri 8 Aug 20259:02 pmCall for service17 min07eab792
Fri 8 Aug 202511:36 pmCall for service18 minf2b9f178
Sun 10 Aug 20255:39 pmCall for service20 mind1621e33
Sun 10 Aug 20256:46 pmCall for service19 minc87fa9bb
Sun 10 Aug 20257:10 pmCall for service17 minb51f7bd6
Sun 10 Aug 20257:35 pmCall for service21 min968fc441
Sun 10 Aug 20257:58 pmCall for service22 min8bb40ca1
Sun 10 Aug 20258:27 pmCall for service17 mindfd289d4
Mon 11 Aug 20253:31 pmCall for service16 minec52ee50
Mon 11 Aug 20256:29 pmCall for service18 minf3eab2fb
Tue 12 Aug 202510:59 amCall for service12 min980cd11e
Tue 12 Aug 20253:52 pmCall for service18 minb1137988
Tue 12 Aug 20254:16 pmCall for service20 minfa350c61
Tue 12 Aug 20254:30 pmCall for service13 min1a97bb33
Tue 12 Aug 20254:53 pmCall for service9 min801f2050
Tue 12 Aug 20255:14 pmCall for service21 mina35a5949
Tue 12 Aug 20255:51 pmCall for service9 min1647fed9
Wed 13 Aug 20257:31 amCall for service10 minfc52185c
Wed 13 Aug 20251:04 pmCall for service11 mina31d5bd5
Wed 13 Aug 20256:15 pmCall for service9 min6b981816
Thu 14 Aug 20257:56 amCall for service10 minf148d6cb
Thu 14 Aug 20258:41 amCall for service18 min4867f794
Thu 14 Aug 202511:41 amCall for service18 min8a5451e1
Thu 14 Aug 202512:50 pmCall for service21 mine0a63a52
Fri 15 Aug 20258:25 amCall for service9 minee59aa0a
Fri 15 Aug 20258:42 amCall for service19 min4d032029
Fri 15 Aug 202512:35 pmCall for service9 min730c1ad8
Sun 17 Aug 20255:34 pmCall for service19 min24fc1663
Sun 17 Aug 20256:06 pmCall for service20 min78c1704d
Sun 17 Aug 20257:04 pmCall for service21 min96af1faa
Sun 17 Aug 20257:18 pmCall for service19 min2ca03eba
Sun 17 Aug 20257:28 pmCall for service11 mind7e3a1f7
Mon 18 Aug 20259:55 amCall for service10 min0099bc3e
Mon 18 Aug 202511:26 amCall for service6 min3ffd91b7
Mon 18 Aug 202511:32 amCall for service11 minfb06ed2f
Mon 18 Aug 20251:27 pmCall for service10 min052fba2f
Mon 18 Aug 20251:43 pmCall for service13 min7d92b73a
Mon 18 Aug 20258:35 pmCall for service17 min3e88ab59
Mon 18 Aug 20259:01 pmCall for service11 minb3834828
Tue 19 Aug 20257:50 amCall for service3 min785fefcd
Tue 19 Aug 202510:03 amCall for service8 min84cef32f
Tue 19 Aug 202510:33 amCall for service14 min77ad861d
Tue 19 Aug 202510:39 amCall for service9 mine3fb822d
Tue 19 Aug 202511:52 amCall for service20 min6f73d14b
Tue 19 Aug 20251:36 pmCall for service9 min37566fbb
Tue 19 Aug 20252:30 pmCall for service4 mina93a2338
Tue 19 Aug 20256:24 pmCall for service12 minae5ad5e9
Tue 19 Aug 20257:07 pmCall for service13 min5f709938
Wed 20 Aug 20258:47 amCall for service21 minef422fe3
Wed 20 Aug 20259:15 amCall for service9 min61554955
Wed 20 Aug 202512:19 pmCall for service14 min89d2db49
Wed 20 Aug 20251:14 pmCall for service14 minefd9f9f9
Wed 20 Aug 20256:23 pmCall for service7 minc64d475f
Wed 20 Aug 20256:48 pmCall for service8 min3caf6396
Thu 21 Aug 20259:21 amCall for service21 min947ca63b
Thu 21 Aug 20259:38 amCall for service16 min3ef7b754
Thu 21 Aug 202510:53 amCall for service16 min19235c4e
Thu 21 Aug 20252:20 pmCall for service21 minbc272506
Thu 21 Aug 20252:57 pmCall for service16 minefc5b7f6
Thu 21 Aug 20253:24 pmCall for service14 mincf9e2484
Thu 21 Aug 20255:20 pmCall for service8 min782d07d2
Thu 21 Aug 20255:44 pmCall for service19 min36154590
Fri 22 Aug 202510:40 amCall for service21 min8db766a9
Fri 22 Aug 202510:50 amCall for service18 mined124146
Fri 22 Aug 202511:10 amCall for service10 minbbd25397
Fri 22 Aug 202512:41 pmCall for service10 minebf4c2e2
Fri 22 Aug 20253:36 pmCall for service7 min7d51353c
Fri 22 Aug 20256:41 pmCall for service15 min405c138b
Fri 22 Aug 20257:26 pmCall for service20 min6e1905a0
Fri 22 Aug 20257:50 pmCall for service12 min617ed7dd
Mon 25 Aug 202511:38 amCall for service11 min5c4e0efb
Mon 25 Aug 202512:24 pmCall for service6 min536ec21f
Mon 25 Aug 20251:58 pmCall for service19 min0a46cee4
Mon 25 Aug 20252:02 pmCall for service22 minb191f96d
Mon 25 Aug 20252:03 pmCall for service7 min741b3b1e
Mon 25 Aug 20252:13 pmCall for service17 mincf930a87
Mon 25 Aug 20257:03 pmCall for service12 min6b046c23
Mon 25 Aug 20257:47 pmCall for service14 min8bcdc22e
Mon 25 Aug 20258:17 pmCall for service19 min5102842f
Mon 25 Aug 20258:33 pmCall for service18 min0b054362
Mon 25 Aug 20259:02 pmCall for service8 minf7256552
Tue 26 Aug 20258:33 amCall for service6 mind42a3bce
Tue 26 Aug 20254:36 pmCall for service13 minb7e43a9e
Wed 27 Aug 202511:58 amCall for service22 min9e0c6fe2
Wed 27 Aug 20255:02 pmCall for service11 minb231a664
Thu 28 Aug 20259:15 amCall for service13 mind6381bda
Thu 28 Aug 202510:14 amCall for service9 min8590d676
Thu 28 Aug 20253:17 pmCall for service13 min149d9e71
Thu 28 Aug 20254:17 pmCall for service6 min0b013104
Thu 28 Aug 20255:02 pmCall for service5 min28c7d687
Fri 29 Aug 20258:41 amCall for service8 minba9e80f7
Fri 29 Aug 20259:50 amCall for service19 min82065288
Fri 29 Aug 202512:07 pmCall for service7 min104bc174
Fri 29 Aug 20254:37 pmCall for service5 minfe97f065
Fri 29 Aug 20254:51 pmCall for service22 min0f7db74a
Fri 29 Aug 20257:13 pmCall for service12 mine2cfc3d6

All 118 flights in August 2025. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Cincinnati / CAGIS (Statistical Neighborhood Approximations 2020), licence recorded as "Public Domain", in the place layer file for Cincinnati.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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