drone flights over Dallas that day.

9:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:42 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dallas police drones flew 21 times on Friday 15 May 2026, the first at 9:00 am and the last at 5:42 pm CDT, by Dallas Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

21 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
9:00 am	Training and testing	6 min	`2c2d1777`
9:12 am	Training and testing	18 min	`c7546c12`
9:36 am	Training and testing	15 min	`03b9b6d1`
10:02 am	Training and testing	6 min	`8dbf6878`
10:28 am	Training and testing	9 min	`e44832ea`
10:42 am	Training and testing	4 min	`a732cd48`
10:49 am	Training and testing	3 min	`e4e50efb`
10:53 am	Training and testing	1 min 02 s	`8c5b8b2d`
11:02 am	Training and testing	7 min	`730bc2bf`
11:48 am	Training and testing	6 min	`09c39033`
12:02 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`8af82c97`
12:59 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`527c30c0`
1:46 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`c999f0b2`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`b0cd62d1`
3:13 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`769164be`
3:23 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`adf0815e`
3:31 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`b8514923`
4:55 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`d79ec720`
5:14 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`5904ebb9`
5:31 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`575fde2d`
5:42 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`548def9b`

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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