drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

9:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:16 pm.

3 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 23 times on Friday 10 April 2026, the first at 9:29 am and the last at 10:16 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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 testing65%
Patrol support26%
Call for service9%

Flights, in order

23 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
9:29 am	Training and testing	2 min	`89c9da74`
10:01 am	Training and testing	1 min 40 s	`c603e59c`
10:21 am	Training and testing	2 min	`191861e9`
10:43 am	Training and testing	3 min	`ba0f7dc0`
11:07 am	Training and testing	3 min	`e057eabf`
11:19 am	Training and testing	3 min	`03b8e546`
11:28 am	Training and testing	1 min 59 s	`ac2e319c`
11:52 am	Training and testing	2 min	`dac73387`
12:09 pm	Training and testing	1 min 48 s	`edf80426`
12:30 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`a0042f78`
12:49 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`400c6451`
1:08 pm	Training and testing	1 min 45 s	`ef35b406`
1:30 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`1b3be3f8`
1:49 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`b3c29863`
2:10 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`c903b875`
4:11 pm	Patrol support	18 min	`a47e4f98`
6:31 pm	Call for service	13 min	`188c3eed`
7:09 pm	Call for service	7 min	`8d9e2e1f`
8:01 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`a4971c2f`
9:20 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`a7a8adbe`
9:43 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`bb63482e`
9:57 pm	Patrol support	19 min	`d42fdf10`
10:16 pm	Patrol support	20 min	`1b5739e0`

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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