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Los Angeles, California · one day

Tuesday 6 January 2026

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

28

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:50 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 28 times on Tuesday 6 January 2026, the first at 10:41 am and the last at 6:50 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

28 drawable flights of 28. 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 call71%
  2. Patrol support18%
  3. Training and testing7%
  4. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

28 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
10:41 amPatrol support24 min859e727c
11:02 amPatrol support22 minf46bd54e
11:22 amPatrol support22 min6dcd00fe
11:41 amPatrol support21 minb7221db6
12:01 pmPatrol support18 mineb9d31ca
12:32 pmCall for service7 minfa775584
12:58 pmRadio call15 min15eaa8e5
1:46 pmRadio call6 min44fedb5a
1:48 pmRadio call8 mine319287e
2:03 pmRadio call11 min5faf68b7
2:07 pmRadio call19 minbe4bd7bc
2:07 pmTraining and testing1 min 03 s0524a76c
2:10 pmTraining and testing1 min 03 s1f296bd1
2:12 pmRadio call12 minbf9d7dcc
3:02 pmRadio call18 min96bd8eaf
3:10 pmRadio call15 minae029425
3:34 pmRadio call18 min06c9eed5
3:39 pmRadio call17 min3031ffdc
3:52 pmRadio call7 min34271deb
4:24 pmRadio call8 min4a96db21
4:28 pmRadio call21 min023b53bf
4:45 pmRadio call9 minfbeb2925
4:57 pmRadio call20 mindc705e96
5:13 pmRadio call20 min8b87a766
5:42 pmRadio call10 min6f04e4d3
5:52 pmRadio call5 min586e1cf0
6:02 pmRadio call14 minadf35f6d
6:50 pmRadio call10 min2606638b

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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