drone flights over Cleveland that day.

10:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:15 pm.

26 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cleveland police drones flew 9 times on Sunday 18 October 2026, the first at 10:20 am and the last at 4:15 pm EDT, by Cleveland Division of Police's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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

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Flights, in order

9 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
10:20 am	Events	24 min	de3d0bf9
10:46 am	Events	19 min	abed34f2
11:06 am	Events	26 min	33c884df
11:35 am	Events	27 min	3b553717
12:08 pm	Events	27 min	0fa9fa7d
12:37 pm	Events	26 min	54b6f902
1:05 pm	Events	13 min	2bb11598
3:46 pm	Events	26 min	0dc61f95
4:15 pm	Events	23 min	5c857655

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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