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Borchert Field

A neighborhood page. 208 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

208

drone flights crossed Borchert Field.

26

of them in October 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Borchert Field 208 times between 17 August 2025 and 24 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2026.

26 of the 26 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Borchert FieldOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

50 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

16% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Borchert Field, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 0
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 0
  6. 10
  7. 23
  8. 10
  9. 18
  10. 19
  11. 26
  12. 22
  13. 23
  14. 25
  15. 26
Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 208 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Patrol support21%
  3. Training and testing4%
  4. Not stated0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20263:29 pmCall for service13 min79f2bfd1
Fri 2 Oct 20267:26 pmCall for service13 minc35ef807
Fri 2 Oct 20267:36 pmCall for service16 min0c9de633
Fri 2 Oct 202610:37 pmCall for service19 minabaef69c
Fri 2 Oct 202610:38 pmCall for service20 mind98ae0f3
Sat 3 Oct 20263:43 pmPatrol support20 mine8ac196b
Sat 3 Oct 20263:56 pmPatrol support16 mincb750a9a
Sat 3 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service13 min35945765
Mon 5 Oct 20267:45 pmCall for service13 min69f5e0c3
Tue 6 Oct 20264:26 pmCall for service13 minbacf77a5
Tue 6 Oct 20265:16 pmPatrol support11 minc2f31c6f
Fri 9 Oct 20269:40 amCall for service20 min65e934d0
Fri 9 Oct 202610:01 pmCall for service13 min025c9b29
Sat 10 Oct 20263:05 pmCall for service13 min25828cfb
Sat 10 Oct 20266:42 pmCall for service16 min335dfecf
Sat 10 Oct 20269:09 pmCall for service16 min46404792
Mon 12 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service13 min10476b12
Tue 13 Oct 20264:45 pmCall for service18 min3b974f2c
Wed 14 Oct 20268:43 pmPatrol support17 min7fd08c87
Sat 17 Oct 20267:12 pmPatrol support16 mincc495614
Mon 19 Oct 202610:14 amCall for service11 min89405640
Mon 19 Oct 20267:29 pmPatrol support17 minf1a46feb
Thu 22 Oct 20261:04 pmPatrol support12 min570048f9
Thu 22 Oct 20263:53 pmPatrol support10 min519b238a
Sat 24 Oct 202611:37 amPatrol support14 minfff2511b
Sat 24 Oct 202612:07 pmCall for service10 min01ab330b

All 26 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Borchert Field" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Milwaukee (Neighborhoods, data.milwaukee.gov), licence recorded as "Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)", in the place layer file for Milwaukee.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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