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Brea, California · one day

Wednesday 16 July 2025

11 drone flights from Brea Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:19 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 11 times on Wednesday 16 July 2025, the first at 11:09 am and the last at 8:19 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing73%
  2. Other18%
  3. Call for service9%

Flights, in order

11 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
11:09 amTraining and testing0 s3ada34b4
11:26 amTraining and testing3 min453d3651
1:11 pmTraining and testing7 min3e74a765
1:21 pmTraining and testing4 minddcdca1e
1:27 pmTraining and testing4 min982d520f
1:35 pmTraining and testing1 min 54 sc349ebdd
1:45 pmCall for service5 min12c458e6
2:18 pmTraining and testing7 min1e5e3e24
6:59 pmTraining and testing7 mincb2b1618
7:57 pmOther12 mina659c7be
8:19 pmOther8 min4d5516c1

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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