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  4. January 2026
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Irvine, California · one day

Wednesday 21 January 2026

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

11

drone flights over Irvine that day.

2:21 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:53 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Irvine police drones flew 11 times on Wednesday 21 January 2026, the first at 2:21 pm and the last at 8:53 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.

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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
2:21 pmNot stated—f9b2a3fc
2:41 pmNot stated—35dcf674
3:16 pmNot stated—d41051b0
4:02 pmNot stated—1a807ca3
4:15 pmNot stated—1593bb64
5:32 pmNot stated—26b25304
7:01 pmNot stated—1ccf3d96
7:23 pmNot stated—5d957cd6
7:45 pmNot stated—5f6ddda5
8:18 pmNot stated—61359445
8:53 pmNot stated—9adea2c4

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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