8
drone flights over Los Angeles that day.
3:23 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 7:47 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Los Angeles police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 3 September 2025, the first at 3:23 pm and the last at 7:47 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:23 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 17 s | 08228760 |
| 3:25 pm | Radio call | 6 min | 85e98cd5 |
| 4:10 pm | Training and testing | 10 min | 02ebd04d |
| 4:28 pm | Radio call | 8 min | 7d53908f |
| 6:10 pm | Radio call | 13 min | 1b1ba5dd |
| 6:24 pm | Radio call | 14 min | 930d5923 |
| 7:34 pm | Radio call | 8 min | d9f0c1a2 |
| 7:47 pm | Radio call | 13 min | 9addedef |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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