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Silver Spring

A neighborhood page. 200 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

200

drone flights crossed Silver Spring.

31

of them in October 2026.

1 min 56 s

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Silver Spring 200 times between 16 September 2025 and 21 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 October 2026.

31 of the 31 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.
Silver SpringOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

17% 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 Silver Spring, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 1
  3. 0
  4. 0
  5. 10
  6. 14
  7. 18
  8. 25
  9. 21
  10. 22
  11. 16
  12. 11
  13. 30
  14. 31
Sep 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 200 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing78%
  2. Call for service14%
  3. Patrol support7%

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 202612:02 amTraining and testing1 min 26 sc0956206
Fri 2 Oct 20266:58 amTraining and testing1 min 05 sb22e6be1
Fri 2 Oct 202611:59 pmTraining and testing3 min09b717bb
Mon 5 Oct 202612:05 amTraining and testing3 min4f3b97d2
Mon 5 Oct 202611:59 pmTraining and testing2 min5da18488
Tue 6 Oct 20268:20 amTraining and testing3 mind48ed72d
Wed 7 Oct 202612:12 amTraining and testing3 mina7b0d845
Thu 8 Oct 202612:05 amTraining and testing3 minf4f56271
Thu 8 Oct 20264:37 pmCall for service26 min67f3c7f9
Thu 8 Oct 20265:05 pmCall for service25 minc7478ed2
Thu 8 Oct 20265:32 pmCall for service28 min4e5f2ada
Thu 8 Oct 20266:05 pmCall for service25 minb119369a
Fri 9 Oct 202612:08 amTraining and testing5 minf9b8386a
Fri 9 Oct 202611:58 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 s9a09fdf5
Sat 10 Oct 20268:13 amTraining and testing1 min 27 sd61cb64a
Sat 10 Oct 20268:35 amCall for service19 min358bb8b4
Sun 11 Oct 20268:09 amTraining and testing1 min 59 s66884abf
Mon 12 Oct 20264:17 amTraining and testing9 min5db528e1
Mon 12 Oct 20268:24 amTraining and testing1 min 07 sbe6a7766
Tue 13 Oct 202611:04 amTraining and testing2 mine01b1536
Wed 14 Oct 202612:04 amTraining and testing4 mindc8e3da2
Wed 14 Oct 202610:19 amTraining and testing1 min 45 s588304b9
Thu 15 Oct 20264:15 amTraining and testing5 mina9f27da4
Thu 15 Oct 20268:56 amPatrol support2 min55f2e3ba
Fri 16 Oct 20268:00 amTraining and testing2 mind1d13dae
Fri 16 Oct 202611:39 pmCall for service33 s23fd629a
Fri 16 Oct 202611:41 pmCall for service3 min1f41b2d6
Fri 16 Oct 202611:44 pmCall for service7 minb3383222
Mon 19 Oct 202612:05 amTraining and testing3 minb89a9181
Wed 21 Oct 202612:02 amTraining and testing3 min82c56937
Wed 21 Oct 202611:57 pmTraining and testing2 min076b8d56

All 31 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. "Silver Spring" 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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