drone flights over Cleveland that day.

11:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:39 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cleveland police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 24 September 2025, the first at 11:31 am and the last at 3:39 pm EDT, by Cleveland Division of Police's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

16 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
11:31 am	Training and testing	21 min	`5274c651`
11:37 am	Training and testing	18 min	`85ab7d82`
11:55 am	Training and testing	7 min	`a475d86d`
2:25 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`96bf968a`
2:29 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`99ac81a2`
2:37 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`0d0981b5`
2:43 pm	Training and testing	8 s	`e93af8cc`
2:44 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`785d62cf`
2:46 pm	Training and testing	28 min	`4a9c575f`
2:51 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`02718524`
3:01 pm	Training and testing	58 s	`6b84bea6`
3:04 pm	Training and testing	43 s	`48e879b2`
3:08 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`d487f8b0`
3:17 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`9f3b4ec0`
3:37 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`603c4855`
3:39 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`067fe280`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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