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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 24 January 2026

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

54

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:25 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 54 times on Saturday 24 January 2026, the first at 10:15 am and the last at 10:25 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

54 drawable flights of 54. 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. Patrol support61%
  2. Radio call33%
  3. Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

54 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
10:15 amTraining and testing14 min86cd5c23
10:52 amRadio call14 min105e94ec
10:55 amRadio call10 min9bf4faf9
11:10 amRadio call15 mine3d7fc60
11:12 amTraining and testing1 min 43 s4620ddf2
11:26 amRadio call18 mine053fa86
11:31 amRadio call19 min9b4dbc8f
11:49 amPatrol support14 min0942037a
11:52 amTraining and testing2 min37615876
12:13 pmRadio call14 mina9cae2c7
12:27 pmRadio call10 mina816cada
12:28 pmRadio call17 mincbe0a5ea
1:14 pmRadio call18 min2865fce9
1:15 pmRadio call15 min91fc2108
1:55 pmRadio call17 min69c20e86
2:07 pmRadio call19 min63ddf190
2:46 pmRadio call16 minb71456ff
2:47 pmRadio call11 min939cb3ff
3:14 pmRadio call13 min09a259cf
3:29 pmRadio call16 min1454f7d6
3:45 pmRadio call18 minb35582ed
4:09 pmPatrol support13 minfe1befb0
4:32 pmPatrol support8 min747bbe0c
4:46 pmPatrol support6 min73876122
5:10 pmPatrol support6 min9e7d8a2e
5:24 pmPatrol support6 mind3fcb5a2
5:32 pmPatrol support4 min7751b20d
5:58 pmPatrol support17 minfb30481b
6:11 pmPatrol support17 mine4d5d4ac
6:25 pmPatrol support16 min9008f343
6:38 pmPatrol support13 min8aef47e9
6:49 pmPatrol support18 mine874a9af
7:04 pmPatrol support17 min9bff3be9
7:19 pmPatrol support18 min6fe0cb6f
7:35 pmPatrol support18 min7449eea4
7:50 pmPatrol support18 min8ec5e7ff
8:02 pmPatrol support16 minfd2214cd
8:06 pmPatrol support6 min7a129a1a
8:14 pmPatrol support15 min9e31340d
8:19 pmPatrol support49 s5c71bc92
8:20 pmPatrol support20 min34901671
8:28 pmPatrol support16 min9f8f7e4d
8:35 pmPatrol support17 minf231f53b
8:48 pmPatrol support17 min530ebad3
9:01 pmPatrol support17 minb569acb4
9:13 pmPatrol support23 min8adf5436
9:32 pmPatrol support14 minb128d838
9:35 pmPatrol support17 minb1a61571
9:41 pmPatrol support22 min8eb2c06e
9:47 pmPatrol support15 minc30eb387
9:58 pmPatrol support17 minc2f13e2b
10:11 pmPatrol support18 mineb8f19bc
10:19 pmRadio call5 minc2722034
10:25 pmPatrol support7 min59d0fbb5

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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