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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 9 January 2026

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

31

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:35 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:27 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 31 times on Friday 9 January 2026, the first at 10:35 am and the last at 6:27 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Training and testing23%
  3. Patrol support3%
  4. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

31 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
10:35 amRadio call8 mina97bbce6
11:20 amRadio call11 minc5a66271
11:23 amTraining and testing59 s5039b099
11:27 amTraining and testing1 min 29 sd3bcf54e
11:40 amRadio call17 min3639a899
11:48 amTraining and testing3 min71babbb5
11:51 amTraining and testing5 mina05bd3f4
12:14 pmRadio call18 mina90e730b
12:22 pmTraining and testing2 minbf00d767
12:35 pmRadio call12 min2918ba25
12:39 pmRadio call8 mine8e35d08
12:51 pmRadio call10 minbfdec8ec
1:34 pmRadio call9 min96dd65f6
1:45 pmRadio call15 minb86ab1f3
2:14 pmRadio call21 mina0b5128a
2:15 pmRadio call9 mine9e0824f
2:49 pmRadio call9 min572e85c0
3:21 pmRadio call16 minb985c63f
3:37 pmRadio call9 min1cb11706
3:47 pmRadio call19 min5e3c582c
3:51 pmRadio call5 min7c6ae52f
4:08 pmRadio call20 minb48fbd63
4:45 pmRadio call9 min3c6433fd
4:58 pmRadio call12 min8786622b
5:06 pmRadio call15 mina25603e6
5:11 pmPatrol support18 min6aa1664e
5:28 pmRadio call17 min59633bf6
5:33 pmRadio call8 min0bbac555
5:47 pmCall for service16 minc7586dcd
6:06 pmTraining and testing5 min8d298e57
6:27 pmTraining and testing3 min3f4c6e29

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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