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Cincinnati, Ohio

Downtown, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 180 of the 24,106 flights in Cincinnati Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

180

drone flights crossed Downtown.

180

of them in September 2025.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 180 times between 2 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

180 of the 180 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

41 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 180 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, September 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Sep 20258:10 amCall for service11 min45967347
Tue 2 Sep 202510:08 amCall for service5 min41421610
Tue 2 Sep 202510:16 amCall for service6 min5f503b0e
Tue 2 Sep 202510:56 amCall for service15 min77042b8c
Tue 2 Sep 202512:52 pmCall for service2 minf8dffcd3
Tue 2 Sep 20252:18 pmCall for service21 minb3a9386b
Tue 2 Sep 20254:08 pmCall for service16 minf575bff3
Tue 2 Sep 20256:14 pmCall for service10 mine1208bb1
Tue 2 Sep 20259:17 pmCall for service10 min1bbc990b
Tue 2 Sep 20259:18 pmCall for service9 min7c0541fb
Wed 3 Sep 202511:58 amCall for service11 min564d5b25
Wed 3 Sep 202512:39 pmCall for service16 min56264b0b
Wed 3 Sep 20252:25 pmCall for service8 min4131ae46
Wed 3 Sep 20252:44 pmCall for service14 min764e0830
Wed 3 Sep 20253:12 pmCall for service22 min7007664f
Wed 3 Sep 20257:46 pmCall for service8 minc8550968
Thu 4 Sep 20257:34 amCall for service14 mina81bdcb1
Thu 4 Sep 20253:05 pmCall for service8 minb33855bc
Thu 4 Sep 20255:30 pmCall for service17 minb9ac5a59
Thu 4 Sep 20256:00 pmCall for service21 min5befde61
Thu 4 Sep 20256:13 pmCall for service21 mina91b6def
Thu 4 Sep 20257:05 pmCall for service13 min6480d051
Fri 5 Sep 20257:37 amCall for service14 min7ede38dd
Fri 5 Sep 20257:52 amCall for service11 minff8610ec
Fri 5 Sep 20258:08 amCall for service10 min24db5b8f
Fri 5 Sep 20258:24 amCall for service21 min30dab592
Fri 5 Sep 20258:56 amCall for service21 mind30f0abd
Fri 5 Sep 202510:19 amCall for service8 minbee83872
Fri 5 Sep 202511:52 amCall for service19 min8d6d39ad
Fri 5 Sep 202512:29 pmCall for service16 mincf7a882c
Fri 5 Sep 202512:46 pmCall for service22 minf1f6bc17
Fri 5 Sep 20251:06 pmCall for service21 mineb041d82
Fri 5 Sep 20251:22 pmCall for service21 min375e05db
Fri 5 Sep 20256:40 pmCall for service15 minc55ffee6
Fri 5 Sep 20256:58 pmCall for service17 min5cfa2959
Fri 5 Sep 20259:01 pmCall for service17 min20237db0
Mon 8 Sep 20258:12 amCall for service13 mine98f67f9
Mon 8 Sep 202511:58 amCall for service21 min5b938dd5
Mon 8 Sep 202512:18 pmCall for service10 min1fbb2d93
Mon 8 Sep 20255:27 pmCall for service6 mine5e8ac44
Tue 9 Sep 20258:26 amCall for service14 min8a3feb1e
Tue 9 Sep 20259:31 amCall for service22 min83df83b8
Tue 9 Sep 20259:47 amCall for service20 minaf15d219
Tue 9 Sep 202512:23 pmCall for service5 min222e9ac3
Tue 9 Sep 20251:13 pmCall for service20 min3b1c87ef
Tue 9 Sep 20251:35 pmCall for service21 min4d758c75
Tue 9 Sep 20251:59 pmCall for service15 mine6dd1628
Tue 9 Sep 20252:43 pmCall for service19 mine0013eec
Tue 9 Sep 20253:22 pmCall for service6 mindc2d5967
Tue 9 Sep 20258:27 pmCall for service15 mina68c4c29
Tue 9 Sep 20258:50 pmCall for service13 min968f75c2
Wed 10 Sep 20259:07 amCall for service6 mine86d5c34
Wed 10 Sep 202510:01 amCall for service7 min6dd5beba
Wed 10 Sep 202511:23 amCall for service5 min0f6b7500
Wed 10 Sep 202512:45 pmCall for service16 min61fe9c2a
Wed 10 Sep 20251:55 pmCall for service10 min8c707cae
Wed 10 Sep 20252:22 pmCall for service19 min36d5f7db
Thu 11 Sep 20258:13 amCall for service4 mine8411172
Thu 11 Sep 20258:44 amCall for service22 min3a99a4c6
Thu 11 Sep 202512:48 pmCall for service9 mine2672ff6
Thu 11 Sep 20251:45 pmCall for service20 minef5f3010
Thu 11 Sep 20251:46 pmCall for service21 minc75f47cd
Thu 11 Sep 20252:10 pmCall for service7 min9dd648dd
Thu 11 Sep 20254:17 pmCall for service5 min1a4d5011
Thu 11 Sep 20256:14 pmCall for service22 min8f7aa2a9
Thu 11 Sep 20258:20 pmCall for service9 min4f1066da
Fri 12 Sep 20258:08 amCall for service17 min313caac3
Fri 12 Sep 202510:45 amCall for service13 mind9c1018c
Fri 12 Sep 20251:10 pmCall for service17 min7b3fcd37
Fri 12 Sep 20253:59 pmCall for service9 min6dafd3fe
Fri 12 Sep 20254:01 pmCall for service20 min143eeab6
Fri 12 Sep 20254:26 pmCall for service18 min9a4ecaf6
Fri 12 Sep 20255:35 pmCall for service15 min6343270f
Sat 13 Sep 20252:52 amCall for service13 minfdb2a22f
Sun 14 Sep 202511:20 amCall for service12 min0fa3b200
Sun 14 Sep 202511:42 amCall for service11 min27f055a7
Sun 14 Sep 202512:17 pmCall for service16 min1ddba912
Sun 14 Sep 202512:43 pmCall for service8 min40d2e0c1
Sun 14 Sep 20251:08 pmCall for service20 min61a033b4
Sun 14 Sep 20251:51 pmCall for service13 min23c41393
Sun 14 Sep 20252:33 pmCall for service14 min45aeb11c
Sun 14 Sep 20252:59 pmCall for service16 min7431e612
Sun 14 Sep 20253:48 pmCall for service15 min2ecc1550
Mon 15 Sep 20257:55 amCall for service11 min73c8e4ca
Mon 15 Sep 20251:40 pmCall for service10 min06bfcdb2
Mon 15 Sep 20252:20 pmCall for service8 minaf07e122
Mon 15 Sep 20253:33 pmCall for service19 min97fabaf2
Mon 15 Sep 20254:41 pmCall for service9 mina37927f6
Mon 15 Sep 20254:55 pmCall for service16 min45348790
Mon 15 Sep 20257:28 pmCall for service8 min5d33c723
Mon 15 Sep 20259:00 pmCall for service13 min467f00a0
Tue 16 Sep 202510:44 amCall for service7 min3f4fecc9
Tue 16 Sep 202510:53 amCall for service22 min4519d54c
Tue 16 Sep 20252:02 pmCall for service10 min46e25bf2
Tue 16 Sep 20252:38 pmCall for service10 min7b86ae2f
Tue 16 Sep 20253:52 pmCall for service7 min540a3ed1
Tue 16 Sep 20254:15 pmCall for service3 mina6ea95a7
Tue 16 Sep 20254:24 pmCall for service18 min2ba6cd53
Tue 16 Sep 20257:10 pmCall for service14 min3d20ae29
Tue 16 Sep 20258:29 pmCall for service8 min681a1a3d
Tue 16 Sep 20259:30 pmCall for service8 min3e280ac7
Wed 17 Sep 20258:43 amCall for service21 min6587ed7f
Wed 17 Sep 202512:34 pmCall for service22 minf058815d
Wed 17 Sep 20251:29 pmCall for service19 min707dbe8f
Wed 17 Sep 20251:59 pmCall for service19 minf1b923c3
Wed 17 Sep 20258:29 pmCall for service12 min04d285a2
Thu 18 Sep 202510:34 amCall for service6 min7b536a53
Thu 18 Sep 202512:47 pmCall for service18 min5c6f8f1e
Thu 18 Sep 20251:07 pmCall for service18 mindd739edd
Thu 18 Sep 20251:19 pmCall for service5 mine71e51ed
Thu 18 Sep 20251:38 pmCall for service21 mind986e334
Thu 18 Sep 20251:57 pmCall for service14 min90286835
Thu 18 Sep 20252:38 pmCall for service13 min017af76e
Thu 18 Sep 20253:02 pmCall for service7 minc550b49b
Thu 18 Sep 20255:13 pmCall for service9 min894a5d9e
Fri 19 Sep 20258:13 amCall for service15 min6ae62739
Fri 19 Sep 202510:22 amCall for service19 min27277c26
Fri 19 Sep 20252:41 pmCall for service18 min157eb629
Fri 19 Sep 20253:06 pmCall for service13 mine2e53d5f
Fri 19 Sep 20253:56 pmCall for service3 min609bc673
Fri 19 Sep 20257:18 pmCall for service9 min704189a3
Fri 19 Sep 20258:26 pmCall for service14 min81134706
Fri 19 Sep 20259:19 pmCall for service10 min7ad328ce
Fri 19 Sep 20259:36 pmCall for service11 min4ca716ba
Fri 19 Sep 202511:06 pmCall for service13 mincb2565e1
Sat 20 Sep 202511:38 amCall for service16 mincf53ac48
Sat 20 Sep 202512:12 pmCall for service18 minf8929b20
Sat 20 Sep 20251:21 pmCall for service18 min8b12fdca
Sat 20 Sep 20251:42 pmCall for service15 min0b2cdadb
Sat 20 Sep 20253:28 pmCall for service17 minb4e2e4ef
Sat 20 Sep 20253:46 pmCall for service19 min34bde12c
Sat 20 Sep 20254:51 pmCall for service20 minec76a2ab
Sat 20 Sep 20255:22 pmCall for service20 min43b92e74
Sat 20 Sep 20255:53 pmCall for service20 min07926c40
Sat 20 Sep 20256:20 pmCall for service19 min5ad8d484
Sat 20 Sep 20256:51 pmCall for service20 min34a816de
Sat 20 Sep 20257:19 pmCall for service18 min6150ed5e
Sat 20 Sep 20257:57 pmCall for service15 min747141b1
Sat 20 Sep 20258:34 pmCall for service13 min6b6736e3
Sat 20 Sep 20259:09 pmCall for service15 min911f9c2a
Sat 20 Sep 20259:46 pmCall for service15 min6bf570f5
Mon 22 Sep 202510:48 amCall for service21 minbc64912d
Mon 22 Sep 20252:12 pmCall for service20 min7acd1d60
Mon 22 Sep 20252:21 pmCall for service10 min26d14dfb
Mon 22 Sep 20257:50 pmCall for service10 mind5ddc016
Tue 23 Sep 20258:00 amCall for service12 mind1f97361
Tue 23 Sep 20258:25 amCall for service16 min40edca0f
Tue 23 Sep 20259:55 amCall for service10 mind713adb4
Tue 23 Sep 20251:17 pmCall for service18 min111bdf81
Tue 23 Sep 20254:03 pmCall for service11 mindfb607eb
Tue 23 Sep 20254:47 pmCall for service6 min9744e558
Tue 23 Sep 20255:11 pmCall for service4 min3c0fa19a
Tue 23 Sep 20255:51 pmCall for service11 min8acd37ab
Tue 23 Sep 20256:38 pmCall for service17 mindfc62884
Wed 24 Sep 20259:41 amCall for service11 min183424f7
Wed 24 Sep 20254:20 pmCall for service10 min32624770
Wed 24 Sep 20255:39 pmCall for service14 mine40f152a
Thu 25 Sep 20257:41 amCall for service4 min3221fab0
Thu 25 Sep 20259:25 amCall for service7 min81abff57
Thu 25 Sep 20259:55 amCall for service18 min4982010a
Thu 25 Sep 202510:22 amCall for service17 min198f5bfa
Thu 25 Sep 202512:48 pmCall for service11 minb62ca85e
Thu 25 Sep 20251:18 pmCall for service6 min847502a8
Thu 25 Sep 20252:08 pmCall for service9 min617b837a
Thu 25 Sep 20253:32 pmCall for service9 minca88edc5
Thu 25 Sep 20256:08 pmCall for service8 min275b556c
Thu 25 Sep 20259:27 pmCall for service10 min0a89c0ab
Fri 26 Sep 20253:18 pmCall for service16 mina3ad9c6d
Mon 29 Sep 20259:37 amCall for service22 min5cbc53b3
Mon 29 Sep 202510:19 amCall for service9 minb61b29ee
Mon 29 Sep 202511:46 amCall for service12 mine02cc33e
Mon 29 Sep 202512:14 pmCall for service9 min4a681577
Mon 29 Sep 20254:11 pmCall for service15 min612b32ff
Mon 29 Sep 20258:28 pmCall for service14 min4fc7d017
Tue 30 Sep 20257:51 amCall for service15 minb46966fe
Tue 30 Sep 20258:17 amCall for service8 mina55e5915
Tue 30 Sep 20259:41 amCall for service11 minadbe3905
Tue 30 Sep 202511:43 amCall for service11 min67ed43c7
Tue 30 Sep 202512:04 pmCall for service20 min62ddb50c
Tue 30 Sep 20258:44 pmCall for service15 min2aeba47e

All 180 flights in September 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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