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Hawthorne, California · one day

Wednesday 4 February 2026

12 drone flights from Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

9:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:27 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 12 times on Wednesday 4 February 2026, the first at 9:33 am and the last at 7:27 pm PST, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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, PST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

12 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:33 amNot stated8 minHPD-2602
10:32 amNot stated18 minHPD-2602
11:00 amNot stated8 minHPD-2602
12:37 pmNot stated17 minHPD-2602
1:04 pmNot stated13 minHPD-2602
1:23 pmNot stated24 minHPD-2602
2:16 pmNot stated14 minHPD-2602
2:46 pmNot stated12 minHPD-2602
3:34 pmNot stated16 minHPD-2602
4:51 pmNot stated16 minHPD-2602
6:08 pmNot stated9 minHPD-2602
7:27 pmNot stated22 minHPD-2602

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

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