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  4. May 2026
  5. 14

Brea, California · one day

Thursday 14 May 2026

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

13

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:57 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 14 May 2026, the first at 11:08 am and the last at 7:57 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Training and testing23%
  3. Other15%

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
11:08 amTraining and testing0 s0b3fc4b5
12:34 pmCall for service8 min2623d9f0
1:10 pmCall for service16 min9d0e7375
1:27 pmCall for service18 min8b51f7de
1:46 pmCall for service6 min45738be0
2:24 pmCall for service12 mina8a30674
2:39 pmTraining and testing18 sf5176c99
2:40 pmCall for service80 min9bf04b3b
5:53 pmCall for service7 min2b8748f3
6:19 pmTraining and testing2 min3bf327d4
6:32 pmCall for service16 min30be1928
7:39 pmOther0 sa9acda3e
7:57 pmOther50 mincf3658a4

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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