9
drone flights over Los Angeles that day.
12:39 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 3:57 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Los Angeles police drones flew 9 times on Sunday 18 January 2026, the first at 12:39 pm and the last at 3:57 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:39 pm | Patrol support | 4 min | 5081f5b4 |
| 2:43 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 5d2ae44b |
| 2:47 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 25 s | 4753b2b7 |
| 3:29 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 4e129f07 |
| 3:35 pm | Training and testing | 19 min | c2da854c |
| 3:40 pm | Patrol support | 21 min | cf8413ad |
| 3:41 pm | Training and testing | 59 s | c08da98e |
| 3:48 pm | Patrol support | 20 min | a7985af1 |
| 3:57 pm | Training and testing | 9 min | d45735ea |
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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