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  4. April 2026
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Hawthorne, California · one day

Monday 13 April 2026

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

7

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

10:54 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:20 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 7 times on Monday 13 April 2026, the first at 10:54 am and the last at 4:20 pm PDT, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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. Other86%
  2. Not stated14%

Flights, in order

7 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
10:54 amNot stated8 minHPD-2604
11:18 amOther11 minHPD-2604
1:08 pmOther24 minHPD-2604
1:44 pmOther18 minHPD-2604
2:35 pmOther13 minHPD-2604
3:22 pmOther14 minHPD-2604
4:20 pmOther19 minHPD-2604

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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