CityDroneWatch
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  3. Hawthorne
  4. September 2026
  5. 6

Hawthorne, California · one day

Sunday 6 September 2026

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

4

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

7:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:17 pm.

5 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 4 times on Sunday 6 September 2026, the first at 7:17 am and the last at 10:17 pm PDT, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

4 drawable flights of 4. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other75%
  2. Not stated25%

Flights, in order

4 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
7:17 amOther54 sHPD-2609
7:43 amNot stated4 minHPD-2609
7:59 pmOther6 minHPD-2609
10:17 pmOther8 minHPD-2609

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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