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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 7 January 2026

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

39

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:37 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 39 times on Wednesday 7 January 2026, the first at 11:05 am and the last at 6:37 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

39 drawable flights of 39. 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 call82%
  2. Training and testing10%
  3. Patrol support5%
  4. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

39 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
11:05 amTraining and testing1 min 33 s96c24b34
11:52 amRadio call18 min6fe73b10
12:03 pmPatrol support15 minb05c43a7
12:35 pmRadio call16 mine28b35d0
12:52 pmTraining and testing1 min 48 s98113f9d
12:52 pmRadio call7 min52d14053
1:03 pmTraining and testing1 min 52 s9e2143bd
1:07 pmNot stated5 min9fb43807
1:13 pmRadio call7 minbf0bfe80
1:15 pmRadio call6 minc22f4597
1:36 pmRadio call13 min2f6c1ea3
1:42 pmRadio call11 minf3b70401
1:54 pmRadio call17 min97c7da67
2:09 pmRadio call14 mind0f97657
2:09 pmRadio call8 min509b6563
2:22 pmRadio call10 min2531138e
2:27 pmRadio call19 min7a9d0c94
2:34 pmRadio call8 min00a5d20d
2:57 pmRadio call18 mind25007ab
2:58 pmRadio call12 mine95fc69b
3:01 pmRadio call11 min42aae85c
3:23 pmRadio call8 min92792d0f
3:33 pmRadio call15 mineccb7750
4:05 pmRadio call19 min3ca5e123
4:17 pmRadio call9 min8d1f05fe
4:31 pmRadio call16 min344b13b0
4:34 pmRadio call20 min5741d248
4:39 pmTraining and testing6 min29c56710
4:44 pmRadio call18 min6b9f743b
4:58 pmRadio call11 minf6351a3e
5:07 pmPatrol support10 minf3a1dbe5
5:36 pmRadio call13 min5dfddf7e
5:37 pmRadio call12 min87f5e680
5:47 pmRadio call10 min582f7e5c
5:51 pmRadio call15 min65c23f41
6:14 pmRadio call15 min4f1a4e57
6:15 pmRadio call16 mina4e011f9
6:31 pmRadio call6 minafb8958f
6:37 pmRadio call16 min72d63e74

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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