8
drone flights over Hawthorne that day.
12:04 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 7:21 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Hawthorne police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 29 January 2026, the first at 12:04 pm and the last at 7:21 pm PST, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 (PST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:04 pm | Not stated | 5 min | HPD-2601 |
| 12:31 pm | Not stated | 12 min | HPD-2601 |
| 12:46 pm | Not stated | 6 min | HPD-2601 |
| 4:28 pm | Not stated | 8 min | HPD-2601 |
| 5:08 pm | Not stated | 8 min | HPD-2601 |
| 5:25 pm | Not stated | 19 min | HPD-2601 |
| 6:09 pm | Not stated | 12 min | HPD-2601 |
| 7:21 pm | Not stated | 12 min | HPD-2601 |
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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