8
drone flights over Milwaukee that day.
12:17 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:43 pm.
5 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Milwaukee police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 12:17 am and the last at 8:43 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:17 am | Patrol support | 13 min | ad1a1f01 |
| 11:21 am | Patrol support | 9 min | 138e94cb |
| 11:43 am | Training and testing | 1 min 33 s | e900c6f3 |
| 2:39 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 41 s | 9646772b |
| 6:24 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 35 s | f7210577 |
| 6:40 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | dc231e9a |
| 7:32 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 3203bb98 |
| 8:43 pm | Call for service | 14 min | dfbf436f |
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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