5
drone flights over Los Angeles that day.
11:30 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:53 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Los Angeles police drones flew 5 times on Tuesday 16 September 2025, the first at 11:30 am and the last at 5:53 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30 am | Training and testing | 3 min | c1721ce0 |
| 1:46 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | 76c5c2de |
| 4:39 pm | Radio call | 17 min | 46117498 |
| 5:33 pm | Radio call | 6 min | aa08fb55 |
| 5:53 pm | Radio call | 14 min | 8070ddfd |
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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