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Brea, California · one day

Friday 3 April 2026

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

13

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:53 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 13 times on Friday 3 April 2026, the first at 11:21 am and the last at 10:53 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Call for service69%
  2. Training and testing31%

Flights, in order

13 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
11:21 amTraining and testing0 sf1068af9
1:08 pmTraining and testing4 min1b5d8667
1:26 pmTraining and testing3 min1f9b8788
1:44 pmCall for service8 minb4f16548
1:56 pmTraining and testing1 min 36 se7b8a97f
2:05 pmCall for service7 min47961693
3:30 pmCall for service10 minfa32bbc6
4:01 pmCall for service13 min343e1af2
4:37 pmCall for service48 sb1334b86
4:39 pmCall for service16 min29aabb1c
7:57 pmCall for service16 minfa58bd41
8:14 pmCall for service13 min1efeae98
10:53 pmCall for service20 mine587fc71

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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