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Cincinnati, Ohio

Downtown, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 178 of the 24,106 flights in Cincinnati Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

178

drone flights crossed Downtown.

178

of them in May 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 178 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Cincinnati Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

178 of the 178 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 2026. 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

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

16% 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 178 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, May 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20268:21 amCall for service7 min7a296a87
Fri 1 May 20268:29 amCall for service9 minb86043c9
Fri 1 May 20262:57 pmCall for service22 minbb9308ff
Fri 1 May 20263:28 pmCall for service14 mind55ba4db
Fri 1 May 20263:29 pmCall for service20 mind34b293a
Fri 1 May 20263:54 pmCall for service20 min93f618ea
Fri 1 May 20266:37 pmCall for service8 min251761a0
Fri 1 May 20269:03 pmCall for service4 mined77ca6c
Sat 2 May 202612:54 amCall for service9 min5bf18dd8
Sat 2 May 20266:24 amCall for service11 minf7f4b551
Sat 2 May 20267:08 amCall for service16 min1b6f60ef
Sat 2 May 20268:40 amCall for service14 min2077534c
Sat 2 May 202610:03 amCall for service14 min75b4ea1a
Sat 2 May 202611:13 amCall for service14 mine7f2d6d8
Sat 2 May 20265:44 pmCall for service23 min629aedbc
Sun 3 May 20261:34 amCall for service10 min1824fcf3
Sun 3 May 20266:20 amCall for service17 minc1ada01c
Sun 3 May 20269:54 amCall for service13 min5cad2f67
Sun 3 May 20266:51 pmCall for service19 minf851acaf
Sun 3 May 20267:06 pmCall for service20 min2b33767b
Sun 3 May 20267:32 pmCall for service21 min7238bb00
Sun 3 May 20268:11 pmCall for service16 min97110a15
Mon 4 May 202612:48 pmCall for service11 min4bd1d182
Mon 4 May 20267:12 pmCall for service6 mina4d4cab0
Mon 4 May 20267:38 pmCall for service9 mindd503c9a
Tue 5 May 20265:42 amCall for service11 min89c00739
Tue 5 May 20266:32 amCall for service22 min672311e9
Tue 5 May 20266:30 pmCall for service10 min649b138d
Tue 5 May 20268:02 pmCall for service8 minf38be1e9
Wed 6 May 20262:59 pmCall for service6 min811eced7
Wed 6 May 20263:06 pmCall for service8 mind43a56e3
Wed 6 May 20264:11 pmCall for service11 min6e6cc282
Wed 6 May 20267:24 pmCall for service20 min2b2341ab
Wed 6 May 20267:40 pmCall for service15 min22660fa8
Wed 6 May 20268:52 pmCall for service8 min6507ae22
Thu 7 May 20261:08 amCall for service7 mind9ebe1d4
Thu 7 May 20261:18 amCall for service4 min2b15e9de
Thu 7 May 20268:08 amCall for service13 minb09ae2f7
Thu 7 May 20269:30 pmCall for service7 min0554ccc9
Fri 8 May 20267:55 amCall for service16 min8339e3a7
Fri 8 May 202610:55 amCall for service12 mincf6d7ed1
Fri 8 May 20261:33 pmCall for service8 minff02757a
Fri 8 May 20262:33 pmCall for service16 min1d8dc9f9
Fri 8 May 20263:10 pmCall for service6 min600e5fd8
Fri 8 May 20263:48 pmCall for service14 mina86be6bd
Fri 8 May 20264:04 pmCall for service14 min585480c2
Fri 8 May 20264:37 pmCall for service16 min094a0b42
Sat 9 May 20265:47 pmCall for service23 minb36f840e
Sat 9 May 20266:12 pmCall for service19 min221f0aa6
Sat 9 May 20266:28 pmCall for service23 min8d6ba57f
Sat 9 May 20266:48 pmCall for service22 minf909f23e
Sat 9 May 20267:06 pmCall for service23 min83bb3099
Sat 9 May 20267:27 pmCall for service21 mindec2accc
Sat 9 May 20267:45 pmCall for service22 min769aa863
Sat 9 May 20268:04 pmCall for service20 mind6b58590
Sat 9 May 20268:21 pmCall for service21 minbfe213f7
Sat 9 May 20268:39 pmCall for service25 mincc60cffe
Sat 9 May 20269:00 pmCall for service22 mind6b9f872
Sat 9 May 20269:18 pmCall for service21 min3a2652fb
Sat 9 May 20269:36 pmCall for service19 min1412d5c8
Sat 9 May 202610:07 pmCall for service18 minc7c83701
Sun 10 May 202612:59 amCall for service21 min1fb1cc98
Sun 10 May 20262:01 amCall for service9 min39576ebf
Mon 11 May 20269:42 amCall for service9 minba0c59c7
Mon 11 May 20261:28 pmCall for service8 min9bfe3026
Mon 11 May 20265:55 pmCall for service15 min6c550231
Mon 11 May 20269:23 pmCall for service14 min38aedd98
Mon 11 May 20269:30 pmCall for service8 min95e8af9d
Tue 12 May 202610:15 amCall for service21 min2a428629
Tue 12 May 202612:06 pmCall for service20 min02e10400
Tue 12 May 202612:26 pmCall for service22 min6c59ee7b
Tue 12 May 20261:55 pmCall for service8 min09bccc6f
Tue 12 May 20264:44 pmCall for service17 mindcf21d74
Tue 12 May 20265:34 pmCall for service9 min2e3a72b0
Tue 12 May 20265:35 pmCall for service6 min0a38fab4
Tue 12 May 20268:36 pmCall for service18 minee2ecdc8
Tue 12 May 20269:24 pmCall for service21 min164b8e5a
Tue 12 May 202610:53 pmCall for service18 minb33e16af
Wed 13 May 20261:40 amCall for service16 min0efcb4ec
Wed 13 May 20268:16 amCall for service18 minbd6d7327
Wed 13 May 20269:47 amCall for service20 min4dfc85eb
Wed 13 May 202610:57 amCall for service14 min4f5afc5e
Wed 13 May 20261:20 pmCall for service15 min577a8d0e
Wed 13 May 20262:27 pmCall for service20 min3f666575
Wed 13 May 20262:49 pmCall for service21 minb1dd6827
Wed 13 May 20264:18 pmCall for service18 min4ceb9066
Wed 13 May 20267:32 pmCall for service20 min2a94e5c5
Wed 13 May 20268:41 pmCall for service19 min5cee5955
Wed 13 May 20269:38 pmCall for service9 mina01ba2aa
Wed 13 May 202611:57 pmCall for service14 min47e04547
Thu 14 May 202612:42 amCall for service13 minb7ea7f37
Thu 14 May 20261:59 amCall for service7 min935cb323
Thu 14 May 20269:23 amCall for service13 min19f2612c
Thu 14 May 202611:01 amCall for service11 min16595490
Thu 14 May 202611:31 amCall for service21 min2b8c96c1
Thu 14 May 202611:40 amCall for service12 minbbba2a7d
Thu 14 May 202611:49 amCall for service8 minf98080a6
Thu 14 May 202612:51 pmCall for service20 min81204d55
Thu 14 May 20262:43 pmCall for service17 mina923be85
Thu 14 May 20263:16 pmCall for service6 min7a0e302d
Thu 14 May 20264:40 pmCall for service8 minb96b6ee1
Fri 15 May 20267:46 amCall for service20 min63711901
Fri 15 May 20269:42 amCall for service19 minee29a6cc
Fri 15 May 202611:05 amCall for service21 min9317303a
Fri 15 May 202612:19 pmCall for service14 min0a4aac2a
Fri 15 May 20263:10 pmCall for service8 mina166c6cf
Fri 15 May 20264:45 pmCall for service14 min5b7f621b
Fri 15 May 20265:52 pmCall for service9 minecae650a
Fri 15 May 20267:47 pmCall for service13 minc94ee770
Fri 15 May 202611:03 pmCall for service15 min1e9e4f07
Sat 16 May 20262:04 amCall for service7 min1bdbd06b
Sat 16 May 202612:41 pmCall for service18 min6c5a807b
Sat 16 May 20266:13 pmCall for service10 minf57f36ef
Sat 16 May 20267:00 pmCall for service21 minc2edae1f
Sat 16 May 20268:29 pmCall for service6 min21426d18
Sat 16 May 202610:54 pmCall for service11 min5f333126
Sun 17 May 20261:13 amCall for service13 min50fce501
Sun 17 May 20261:41 amCall for service19 minf256eea6
Sun 17 May 20262:02 amCall for service4 mincfbe7420
Sun 17 May 20265:04 amCall for service9 min33bf5587
Sun 17 May 20263:46 pmCall for service7 min3a0a3618
Sun 17 May 20267:24 pmCall for service12 mind2f0df23
Sun 17 May 20268:52 pmCall for service12 minc3f48b53
Mon 18 May 20262:27 amCall for service9 min1ca863dd
Mon 18 May 20268:57 amCall for service13 min28a34255
Mon 18 May 202612:47 pmCall for service19 min553a87e7
Mon 18 May 20264:26 pmCall for service9 min1715bed7
Tue 19 May 202611:42 amCall for service11 min3f39fe12
Tue 19 May 20261:11 pmCall for service18 min317214df
Tue 19 May 20264:08 pmCall for service21 min6558b000
Tue 19 May 20269:30 pmCall for service9 mina44c1442
Wed 20 May 202612:50 pmCall for service6 minbeae7b25
Thu 21 May 20262:04 pmCall for service18 minfd353a71
Thu 21 May 20264:10 pmCall for service22 mindc81d25b
Thu 21 May 20264:29 pmCall for service22 min8b328896
Thu 21 May 20264:44 pmCall for service21 min7fceb956
Thu 21 May 20264:59 pmCall for service14 minf1b87ce3
Thu 21 May 20265:09 pmCall for service9 mincbeaeac4
Thu 21 May 20265:13 pmCall for service17 min2acf69dd
Thu 21 May 20267:48 pmCall for service20 min1fb338ca
Fri 22 May 20267:45 amCall for service21 min9fc338df
Fri 22 May 20269:55 amCall for service9 minf55c82e7
Sat 23 May 20268:25 pmCall for service9 min42657771
Sat 23 May 20268:58 pmCall for service20 minb87e06d0
Sun 24 May 20261:16 pmCall for service22 min1b996b3a
Sun 24 May 20261:33 pmCall for service16 minc652758e
Sun 24 May 20262:25 pmCall for service6 min57a6b98e
Mon 25 May 202610:56 amCall for service20 minbb736467
Mon 25 May 202611:10 amCall for service17 mind4b1f0db
Mon 25 May 202612:18 pmCall for service5 minb11f0f09
Mon 25 May 20266:05 pmCall for service15 minf09b6ec2
Mon 25 May 20268:19 pmCall for service16 min501c4f1c
Mon 25 May 20268:54 pmCall for service14 min9e0bd734
Mon 25 May 20269:23 pmCall for service18 minb1e151d8
Tue 26 May 20267:31 amCall for service22 min251e9c92
Tue 26 May 20269:03 amCall for service11 min78f4e665
Tue 26 May 202611:29 amCall for service15 min4f9b83fc
Wed 27 May 20269:25 amCall for service22 minb5701e66
Wed 27 May 20264:52 pmCall for service7 min4daefef7
Thu 28 May 202610:52 amCall for service2 min085d369a
Thu 28 May 20263:52 pmCall for service18 min02450891
Thu 28 May 20265:38 pmCall for service15 minfa4f2c78
Fri 29 May 20263:11 amCall for service14 min08d12aa1
Fri 29 May 20268:23 amCall for service15 min5de96f94
Fri 29 May 202611:24 amCall for service18 minfbbc8753
Fri 29 May 202611:53 amCall for service20 min64106c71
Fri 29 May 202612:57 pmCall for service15 min89280653
Fri 29 May 20264:13 pmCall for service7 mina2603108
Fri 29 May 20269:28 pmCall for service7 minbdb399a7
Sat 30 May 20262:22 amCall for service14 min9869c598
Sat 30 May 20262:43 pmCall for service11 min94b991fc
Sat 30 May 20263:07 pmCall for service13 mine392e8f9
Sat 30 May 202610:52 pmCall for service6 min62ce5348
Sun 31 May 202612:21 amCall for service19 min6804275b
Sun 31 May 202612:45 amCall for service19 min86ed71c2
Sun 31 May 20262:37 amCall for service5 min36be74aa
Sun 31 May 20263:20 amCall for service9 minb6f0baa9
Sun 31 May 20269:41 pmCall for service10 minab391271

All 178 flights in May 2026. 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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