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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 15 January 2026

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

37

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:04 am

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

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 37 times on Thursday 15 January 2026, the first at 10:04 am and the last at 6:27 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call81%
  2. Training and testing11%
  3. Patrol support5%
  4. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

37 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
10:04 amTraining and testing3 min1e45eea5
11:02 amRadio call16 mina199608c
11:10 amRadio call6 minc14a3afd
11:26 amRadio call8 minb5a42d56
11:32 amRadio call13 mincad7d919
11:36 amTraining and testing1 min 57 sd61565e3
11:49 amTraining and testing1 min 36 s8f07fe59
12:05 pmRadio call16 minbb9a0a95
12:05 pmRadio call8 mine5e9d497
12:26 pmTraining and testing2 min665a10a7
12:34 pmRadio call21 minafc0e26c
12:40 pmRadio call14 minc741f6c8
12:53 pmRadio call12 min6c55c1b7
1:09 pmCall for service2 mineb75e662
1:22 pmRadio call6 min225f65fe
1:35 pmRadio call7 min217530c5
1:56 pmRadio call17 minb323d84c
2:05 pmRadio call18 minc5220949
2:25 pmRadio call13 min621cd490
2:40 pmRadio call17 mina8d0f78c
2:58 pmRadio call10 mincfa5f22e
3:06 pmRadio call22 min6380d512
3:17 pmPatrol support17 min4ef11776
3:35 pmRadio call8 min862b4a53
4:16 pmRadio call10 min1368397b
4:21 pmRadio call20 min9dfbe06a
4:31 pmRadio call21 min8e52281a
4:48 pmRadio call3 minf11a0454
5:02 pmRadio call11 min48cfb80a
5:15 pmRadio call1 min 55 sd5d1a96d
5:25 pmRadio call15 min7f1463ff
5:35 pmRadio call7 min54a94dde
5:49 pmRadio call5 mineb60d4a7
5:54 pmRadio call15 minadb2c626
6:03 pmRadio call14 min3dba9833
6:16 pmPatrol support17 min883016ca
6:27 pmRadio call12 minb96a605b

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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