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Los Angeles, California · one day

Tuesday 27 January 2026

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

32

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:46 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:13 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 32 times on Tuesday 27 January 2026, the first at 11:46 am and the last at 7:13 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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 testing19%

Flights, in order

32 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
11:46 amRadio call14 min74955b34
12:01 pmRadio call19 min0f1785c7
12:04 pmTraining and testing3 mind89c6677
12:10 pmTraining and testing2 mina7fcb605
12:40 pmRadio call8 min76da5d91
12:48 pmRadio call7 mincd49e8f0
1:04 pmRadio call13 min0dde5581
1:25 pmRadio call8 min03459752
1:29 pmTraining and testing2 min9068b5fe
1:34 pmRadio call9 mindec93f88
1:36 pmTraining and testing1 min 22 s62648fa7
1:46 pmRadio call12 mineec0c6ff
2:06 pmRadio call14 minfda51c5b
2:39 pmRadio call22 min5b80ec27
3:05 pmRadio call18 min7a4254b1
3:12 pmTraining and testing9 mine0829ea7
3:24 pmRadio call17 min3c05acc8
3:24 pmRadio call8 minb35a9bef
3:47 pmRadio call12 minc0edd8db
3:53 pmRadio call14 min3d8a5b27
4:22 pmRadio call20 min13c08bc6
4:24 pmRadio call11 mine5db63b5
4:51 pmRadio call8 min9e2a79fe
5:10 pmRadio call6 mine6759198
6:01 pmRadio call16 min4f86c748
6:18 pmTraining and testing3 mindac00757
6:37 pmRadio call14 minaf004c26
6:37 pmRadio call12 min73ee9851
6:50 pmRadio call18 min6964ea19
7:02 pmRadio call13 min260402c3
7:11 pmRadio call12 min6dcce1f5
7:13 pmRadio call16 min944de8c1

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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