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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 21 January 2026

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

37

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:17 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 37 times on Wednesday 21 January 2026, the first at 11:05 am and the last at 7:17 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call73%
  2. Training and testing27%

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
11:05 amTraining and testing1 min 53 sddc31400
11:15 amRadio call9 minead07573
11:15 amTraining and testing1 min 59 s23ae86a5
11:30 amRadio call15 mindb0901b1
11:40 amRadio call10 mina16de845
11:53 amRadio call17 mindc95ec42
12:08 pmRadio call9 min9b29bfa0
12:13 pmRadio call19 min39d7fc1c
12:28 pmRadio call10 min326aaaeb
12:54 pmRadio call13 minbeacd214
1:00 pmTraining and testing4 min11a2ae6c
1:10 pmRadio call13 min3fdee133
1:25 pmRadio call15 minc54bd0fa
1:38 pmTraining and testing3 mine0ac6017
1:48 pmRadio call9 minc383f8fe
2:04 pmRadio call18 min2849f8ba
2:35 pmRadio call20 min222d8b2d
2:37 pmRadio call14 mincb15a3c9
2:52 pmRadio call12 min28db5b1e
2:56 pmTraining and testing1 min 11 sb749a414
2:58 pmTraining and testing53 sb0d4c5a7
3:26 pmRadio call16 min3cec9005
3:29 pmRadio call19 min5a8bded5
3:32 pmTraining and testing10 min8047e66e
3:44 pmRadio call8 min23ddebfb
3:49 pmRadio call15 mindd6234fb
4:02 pmTraining and testing6 minc0b8f14f
4:09 pmTraining and testing1 min 54 sceaa5f4f
4:16 pmRadio call13 minfc778226
4:33 pmRadio call17 min1d8b63c5
4:45 pmRadio call15 mina981a70a
4:47 pmRadio call16 min8b6d2199
5:54 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 s6ff61de1
6:33 pmRadio call12 min3eafbddc
6:54 pmRadio call9 min208ab894
7:14 pmRadio call15 min21f8ca72
7:17 pmRadio call5 min8570db4b

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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