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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Fairfield, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Fairfield.

17

of them in January 2026.

25 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Fairfield 17 times between 7 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
FairfieldOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing94%
  2. Patrol support6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 7 Jan 20261:07 pmTraining and testing28 min006a213e
Wed 7 Jan 20262:47 pmTraining and testing27 min8181c92d
Wed 7 Jan 20265:14 pmTraining and testing20 min25c9a81e
Thu 8 Jan 202611:49 amTraining and testing17 mincff87109
Thu 8 Jan 202612:12 pmTraining and testing26 minef0b80a7
Thu 8 Jan 202612:43 pmTraining and testing26 mindc0a4471
Thu 8 Jan 20261:15 pmTraining and testing25 mind77239b8
Thu 8 Jan 20261:49 pmTraining and testing21 mina189e71c
Thu 8 Jan 20262:16 pmTraining and testing26 minee298743
Thu 8 Jan 20263:36 pmTraining and testing23 min40cf1af1
Thu 8 Jan 20264:03 pmTraining and testing25 mind5fe4c3c
Fri 9 Jan 202612:42 pmTraining and testing21 min064d50b6
Fri 9 Jan 202612:57 pmTraining and testing11 minfdea32e0
Fri 9 Jan 20261:06 pmTraining and testing26 minacf9645e
Fri 9 Jan 20261:10 pmTraining and testing25 mind5181f6a
Fri 9 Jan 20261:38 pmPatrol support24 min7eeb58da
Fri 30 Jan 20261:56 pmTraining and testing9 minf4bff6d2

All 17 flights in January 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. "Fairfield" 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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