DroneRecord
  1. Drone Record
  2. California
  3. Hawthorne
  4. August 2026
  5. 19

Hawthorne, California · one day

Wednesday 19 August 2026

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

19

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

9:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:30 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 19 times on Wednesday 19 August 2026, the first at 9:25 am and the last at 7:30 pm PDT, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 19. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other63%
  2. Not stated37%

Flights, in order

18 listable flights; 1 with a sensitive stated purpose are counted above but not listed. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.

Takeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:25 amNot stated4 minHPD-2608
9:29 amNot stated12 minHPD-2608
10:16 amNot stated3 minHPD-2608
12:15 pmOther16 minHPD-2608
2:09 pmOther19 minHPD-2608
2:20 pmNot stated1 min 00 sHPD-2608
2:40 pmOther13 minHPD-2608
3:03 pmOther13 minHPD-2608
3:14 pmOther6 minHPD-2608
3:27 pmOther5 minHPD-2608
3:28 pmNot stated54 sHPD-2608
3:53 pmNot stated10 minHPD-2608
4:36 pmOther14 minHPD-2608
4:55 pmNot stated11 minHPD-2608
6:09 pmOther17 minHPD-2608
6:49 pmOther6 minHPD-2608
7:04 pmOther9 minHPD-2608
7:30 pmOther13 minHPD-2608

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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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