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  4. April 2026
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Hawthorne, California · one day

Wednesday 15 April 2026

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

9

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

9:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:51 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 15 April 2026, the first at 9:59 am and the last at 6:51 pm PDT, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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. Other78%
  2. Not stated22%

Flights, in order

9 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
9:59 amNot stated4 minHPD-2604
10:40 amOther13 minHPD-2604
12:10 pmOther11 minHPD-2604
12:26 pmOther24 minHPD-2604
2:55 pmOther11 minHPD-2604
3:14 pmOther15 minHPD-2604
5:25 pmNot stated4 minHPD-2604
5:57 pmOther10 minHPD-2604
6:51 pmOther23 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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