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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 2 January 2026

33 drone flights from Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

33

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:08 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 33 times on Friday 2 January 2026, the first at 11:30 am and the last at 7:08 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

33 drawable flights of 33. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call70%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

33 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
11:30 amRadio call7 mind62ebaf9
11:44 amRadio call15 min539cef24
12:11 pmTraining and testing2 mina64b7eda
12:23 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s93610c55
12:23 pmRadio call20 minc26f1b5b
12:29 pmTraining and testing3 minc2d991b1
12:35 pmTraining and testing2 min99877fda
12:42 pmRadio call19 minfa7b96b0
1:00 pmRadio call13 min1af3eee1
1:10 pmRadio call15 minbe56c468
1:41 pmTraining and testing4 min82c646e9
1:46 pmRadio call8 minbd2ad12e
1:54 pmRadio call7 min0a1a1b9c
2:19 pmTraining and testing3 mina9625ec7
2:26 pmPatrol support22 mineb4f0911
2:38 pmPatrol support16 min41ee137f
2:50 pmPatrol support20 minb3226436
3:07 pmRadio call14 min63516cd4
3:49 pmRadio call20 mine30ba26f
3:51 pmRadio call18 minec2b6bcf
4:01 pmRadio call20 minbd2d06d2
4:24 pmRadio call23 minb9727cc7
4:25 pmRadio call9 min1fd16ee7
4:40 pmRadio call13 minc0c8ea1e
5:12 pmRadio call15 mindd3a0898
5:34 pmRadio call21 min15139a73
5:45 pmRadio call11 min9c72dcb0
5:57 pmRadio call20 minc2c55ad1
6:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 25 s0c25aa18
6:07 pmRadio call17 minb8beb3a4
6:23 pmRadio call10 min75b6c4a3
6:35 pmRadio call16 min0df28f07
7:08 pmRadio call11 mindcbce465

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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