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Lancaster, California · one day

Thursday 15 January 2026

14 drone flights from Lancaster Police Department's published record.

14

drone flights over Lancaster that day.

7:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:31 pm.

—

durations not published in this record.

Lancaster police drones flew 14 times on Thursday 15 January 2026, the first at 7:42 am and the last at 7:31 pm PST, by Lancaster Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 14. 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

14 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
7:42 amNot stated—ad218e59
8:04 amNot stated—5fd08234
4:48 pmNot stated—5d45d469
5:08 pmNot stated—0b323dc0
5:12 pmNot stated—84ab3574
5:26 pmNot stated—02e3d6ce
5:29 pmNot stated—af096b50
5:47 pmNot stated—bae5a6bc
6:00 pmNot stated—da26089c
6:14 pmNot stated—e46f3f81
6:27 pmNot stated—1f888d18
7:18 pmNot stated—e394528e
7:27 pmNot stated—f55b32f3
7:31 pmNot stated—aec3003b

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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