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  4. January 2026
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Irvine, California · one day

Thursday 15 January 2026

11 drone flights from Irvine Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Irvine that day.

4:35 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:19 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Irvine police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 15 January 2026, the first at 4:35 am and the last at 9:19 pm PST, by Irvine Police Department's published record.

11 flights with a published block-level point of 11. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

11 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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
4:35 amNot stated—7aa0c25f
2:12 pmNot stated—f39fca6d
2:42 pmNot stated—29ee63f1
2:56 pmNot stated—c599ad42
5:42 pmNot stated—7626e303
6:28 pmNot stated—c53d2afb
6:48 pmNot stated—c3f2a8ba
6:59 pmNot stated—6ca3f1a8
7:31 pmNot stated—7d73d3a1
8:54 pmNot stated—91643c63
9:19 pmNot stated—3642aef4

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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