DroneRecord
  1. Drone Record
  2. California
  3. Hawthorne
  4. September 2026
  5. 16

Hawthorne, California · one day

Wednesday 16 September 2026

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

13

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

8:13 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:18 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 16 September 2026, the first at 8:13 am and the last at 7:18 pm PDT, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Other69%
  2. Not stated31%

Flights, in order

13 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.

Takeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:13 amOther9 minHPD-2609
8:41 amOther21 minHPD-2609
9:09 amNot stated4 minHPD-2609
9:20 amOther4 minHPD-2609
9:56 amNot stated2 minHPD-2609
1:58 pmOther11 minHPD-2609
2:17 pmOther2 minHPD-2609
3:28 pmOther22 minHPD-2609
3:48 pmOther5 minHPD-2609
5:51 pmNot stated7 minHPD-2609
6:05 pmNot stated13 minHPD-2609
6:39 pmOther12 minHPD-2609
7:18 pmOther5 minHPD-2609

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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