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El Cajon, California

El Cajon Police Department

El Cajon, California. 180 flights in the record from August 2026.

180

drone flights in the published record.

76

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

El Cajon Police Department drones flew 180 times between 25 August 2026 and 29 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 76 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 76 of 76 flights in October 2026.

64 of the 64 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

32 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 18 minutes.

11% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 2
  2. 102
  3. 76
Aug 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 for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 180 flights.

  1. Call for service72%
  2. Not stated13%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Other2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 202611:24 amCall for service9 min234599f4
Mon 5 Oct 202611:02 amCall for service4 minc9f57082
Mon 5 Oct 202611:05 amCall for service13 min3144cd8f
Mon 5 Oct 20261:12 pmCall for service16 min9b4e60a1
Mon 5 Oct 20261:26 pmCall for service11 min207fdf96
Mon 5 Oct 20261:47 pmCall for service6 min609dc1f0
Mon 5 Oct 20262:18 pmCall for service15 min37e2975b
Mon 5 Oct 20262:47 pmCall for service4 mina534987b
Mon 5 Oct 20263:00 pmCall for service8 min448518ea
Mon 5 Oct 20263:09 pmCall for service8 mind6c8114f
Mon 5 Oct 20263:55 pmCall for service9 minb1c71049
Mon 5 Oct 20264:08 pmCall for service8 min2f74504b
Tue 6 Oct 202612:50 pmCall for service19 min090bdf76
Tue 6 Oct 20261:06 pmCall for service16 min5ad253b7
Tue 6 Oct 20261:22 pmCall for service11 min034c54ce
Tue 6 Oct 20262:56 pmCall for service20 min7748d3df
Tue 6 Oct 20263:18 pmCall for service20 min4eda773f
Wed 7 Oct 202610:05 amCall for service15 min8facfe3a
Wed 7 Oct 202610:19 amCall for service6 mind98be490
Fri 9 Oct 20268:20 amCall for service22 min3c872b83
Fri 9 Oct 20268:41 amCall for service14 min7844f63d
Fri 9 Oct 202612:14 pmCall for service9 min04977baa
Tue 13 Oct 202612:47 pmNot stated3 minc51ad51a
Tue 13 Oct 202612:56 pmNot stated1 min 14 s35737a9f
Tue 13 Oct 20261:02 pmTraining and testing3 min9f1d43c1
Tue 13 Oct 20261:07 pmTraining and testing7 minc9df2bb6
Tue 13 Oct 20261:15 pmCall for service15 mine4e0bf31
Tue 13 Oct 20261:32 pmCall for service6 min0bf24b4b
Tue 13 Oct 20261:47 pmNot stated8 min106ffbeb
Tue 13 Oct 20262:19 pmCall for service9 min043bddbc
Tue 13 Oct 20262:38 pmCall for service13 mine5738b37
Tue 13 Oct 20263:10 pmCall for service18 minf69d54d6
Wed 14 Oct 202611:38 amCall for service4 min06efb33d
Wed 14 Oct 202612:06 pmNot stated11 min069ddb0b
Fri 16 Oct 20261:56 pmTraining and testing3 min0852087b
Fri 16 Oct 20262:45 pmTraining and testing16 min11d457ac
Mon 19 Oct 202611:54 amCall for service5 minbfaaa8a7
Mon 19 Oct 202612:02 pmCall for service15 min5b93176e
Mon 19 Oct 202612:32 pmCall for service3 min1620e59e
Mon 19 Oct 20261:07 pmCall for service11 min5da48ccf
Mon 19 Oct 20261:33 pmCall for service4 min1b96b69c
Mon 19 Oct 20262:00 pmCall for service17 min04ed113f
Mon 19 Oct 20262:31 pmCall for service17 min1c0f9033
Mon 19 Oct 20262:56 pmCall for service3 min374aa448
Mon 19 Oct 20263:19 pmCall for service6 min6b03562c
Mon 19 Oct 20263:54 pmCall for service10 minc732ab04
Tue 20 Oct 20261:27 pmCall for service17 min6579760a
Tue 20 Oct 20263:31 pmTraining and testing9 mine45de8a6
Tue 20 Oct 20264:36 pmTraining and testing16 minf53632cb
Wed 21 Oct 202610:55 amNot stated2 min44b84f66
Wed 21 Oct 202610:58 amTraining and testing58 s5af40dd6
Wed 21 Oct 202610:59 amTraining and testing1 min 06 s8d27e5a2
Wed 21 Oct 202611:01 amTraining and testing1 min 03 se12eb7fb
Wed 21 Oct 202611:08 amTraining and testing51 s454654d1
Wed 21 Oct 202611:10 amTraining and testing55 s6e9229d6
Wed 21 Oct 202611:11 amTraining and testing57 s70fa80e1
Wed 21 Oct 202611:13 amTraining and testing59 s1e565aec
Wed 21 Oct 202612:01 pmCall for service8 min81e7de85
Wed 21 Oct 20261:54 pmCall for service10 min5b94cd10
Wed 21 Oct 20265:16 pmCall for service13 min170b20da
Mon 26 Oct 202612:30 pmCall for service8 minecd80c72
Mon 26 Oct 202612:46 pmCall for service6 min2b4614ba
Mon 26 Oct 202612:51 pmCall for service17 min6116252b
Mon 26 Oct 20261:27 pmCall for service9 min760c848f
Mon 26 Oct 20262:18 pmCall for service10 mindbe09a53
Mon 26 Oct 20262:47 pmCall for service12 min5f7fbcde
Mon 26 Oct 20263:02 pmCall for service7 min6b6abe25
Mon 26 Oct 20263:18 pmCall for service56 sc374681a
Mon 26 Oct 20263:32 pmCall for service6 min477a2b3c
Mon 26 Oct 20264:17 pmCall for service2 min0e258249
Wed 28 Oct 202611:22 amCall for service16 min522d1de2
Thu 29 Oct 20264:15 amCall for service16 min23d6d2a6
Thu 29 Oct 20262:59 pmCall for service4 minbe69cdb3
Thu 29 Oct 20265:11 pmCall for service4 mina85b0fba
Thu 29 Oct 20266:06 pmCall for service9 min927bde00
Thu 29 Oct 20267:55 pmCall for service16 min8e7c6dd1

All 76 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Published by the feed named: El Cajon PD. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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