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Lancaster, California

Lancaster Police Department

Lancaster, California. 820 flights in the record from October 2025.

820

drone flights in the published record.

43

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

5%

took off between 10 pm and 6 am.

Where this record comes from

AirData? AirData is a flight-log service for drone fleets. Some agencies publish a public page of their flights there.

This record publishes takeoff time, a point at the block level, stated reason; no duration and no path. Open Lancaster Police Department's own published record.

Lancaster Police Department drones flew 820 times between 4 October 2025 and 27 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 43 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 43 of 43 flights in October 2026.

43 of the 43 flights with a published location in October 2026, sampled evenly. The record gives a point at the 100-block or intersection, not a path.
One flight, at its published block

5% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

— The record publishes no flight durations.

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

Month by month

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

  1. Oct 2025: 84 flights. 84
  2. Nov 2025: 49 flights. 49
  3. Dec 2025: 68 flights. 68
  4. Jan 2026: 78 flights. 78
  5. Feb 2026: 69 flights. 69
  6. Mar 2026: 55 flights. 55
  7. Apr 2026: 115 flights. 115
  8. May 2026: 62 flights. 62
  9. Jun 2026: 69 flights. 69
  10. Jul 2026: 47 flights. 47
  11. Aug 2026: 32 flights. 32
  12. Sep 2026: 49 flights. 49
  13. Oct 2026: 43 flights. 43
Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, 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 820 flights.

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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
Thu 1 Oct 20262:07 amNot stated—c13da059
Thu 1 Oct 20267:54 pmNot stated—d1154064
Thu 1 Oct 20269:30 pmNot stated—99aa1228
Thu 1 Oct 202611:03 pmNot stated—890cbafa
Fri 2 Oct 20264:49 pmNot stated—a7dfea2f
Fri 2 Oct 20265:43 pmNot stated—6a4c757a
Fri 2 Oct 20266:26 pmNot stated—2dfcf4cc
Fri 2 Oct 20267:23 pmNot stated—9ded3670
Fri 2 Oct 20267:47 pmNot stated—7c842111
Fri 2 Oct 202610:44 pmNot stated—f7bb2d5c
Fri 2 Oct 202611:09 pmNot stated—1fa2651f
Fri 2 Oct 202611:57 pmNot stated—1f1188a9
Sat 3 Oct 20264:35 pmNot stated—e838d5b5
Sat 3 Oct 20265:48 pmNot stated—ef0ac0cf
Sat 3 Oct 20266:09 pmNot stated—8c241789
Sat 3 Oct 20266:36 pmNot stated—01fb3296
Sat 3 Oct 20266:49 pmNot stated—49b95bdb
Sat 3 Oct 20267:13 pmNot stated—8f5c7733
Sat 3 Oct 20267:25 pmNot stated—2ce2cc2c
Sat 3 Oct 20267:43 pmNot stated—40e76c37
Sat 3 Oct 20268:02 pmNot stated—f5aa06ae
Sat 3 Oct 20268:15 pmNot stated—3e8704aa
Sat 3 Oct 20269:06 pmNot stated—5ba0c2a2
Sat 3 Oct 20269:39 pmNot stated—66478494
Sat 3 Oct 202610:07 pmNot stated—36998fd4
Sat 3 Oct 202610:44 pmNot stated—a676b86f
Sat 3 Oct 202611:28 pmNot stated—2b354973
Sun 4 Oct 20264:40 pmNot stated—ebfe118d
Sun 4 Oct 20264:57 pmNot stated—41846bd7
Sun 4 Oct 20266:22 pmNot stated—826546f6
Sun 4 Oct 20267:50 pmNot stated—6fbe3d2a
Sun 4 Oct 20268:39 pmNot stated—3b7109a5
Sun 4 Oct 20269:30 pmNot stated—fb23e6c0
Sun 4 Oct 20269:42 pmNot stated—cf815c51
Sat 17 Oct 20264:20 pmNot stated—ba48e833
Sat 17 Oct 20265:02 pmNot stated—a5ecad09
Sat 17 Oct 20266:10 pmNot stated—315355ba
Sat 17 Oct 20266:26 pmNot stated—046734f4
Sat 17 Oct 20267:31 pmNot stated—cc1230cb
Tue 27 Oct 20269:36 amNot stated—8e74eff4
Tue 27 Oct 202610:00 amNot stated—f8fe932a
Tue 27 Oct 202610:29 amNot stated—d09fb7d5
Tue 27 Oct 202610:44 amNot stated—72df0dcb

All 43 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, 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.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 400 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. The whole-record option is an even 400-flight sample.
  • Record source: Lancaster Police Department, via AirData public flight page (https://app.airdata.com/u/lpdviper), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; AirData terms ('solely for your own use').?
  • What this record does not publish: no duration (duration tiles and the length filter are not shown); no flight path (the map shows the published block-level point per flight; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.

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