drone flights over Dallas that day.

9:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:17 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dallas police drones flew 32 times on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first at 9:34 am and the last at 5:17 pm CDT, by Dallas Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

32 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:34 am	Training and testing	10 min	`45caef40`
9:58 am	Training and testing	21 min	`55696850`
10:05 am	Training and testing	11 min	`668006aa`
10:15 am	Training and testing	9 min	`c83145c0`
10:31 am	Training and testing	17 min	`be341b34`
10:43 am	Training and testing	10 min	`33daa595`
10:46 am	Training and testing	20 min	`aee884eb`
11:05 am	Training and testing	7 min	`cb3d1723`
11:16 am	Training and testing	14 min	`f28a927a`
11:29 am	Training and testing	12 min	`ba25e596`
11:38 am	Training and testing	17 min	`4bc638d1`
11:43 am	Training and testing	13 min	`57224b5b`
12:06 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`babc71fa`
1:56 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`76bdf468`
2:05 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`2d35ea65`
2:10 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`293e1f5b`
2:13 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`1cc3cc81`
2:26 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`43b54041`
2:53 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`ed8aa4ef`
2:54 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`8c039eb6`
3:09 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`8fc59aee`
3:21 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`d1efe195`
3:25 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`21cb01a1`
3:31 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`522dca4b`
3:47 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`5a6f4da4`
3:55 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`508ae505`
4:27 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`1a2fa228`
4:30 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`bef409aa`
4:48 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`e2b46aef`
4:57 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`f99ebd49`
4:58 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`c753b9c7`
5:17 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`2c7431a7`

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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