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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 30 January 2026

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

59

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:11 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 59 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 10:19 am and the last at 10:11 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

59 drawable flights of 59. 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 call59%
  2. Patrol support20%
  3. Training and testing17%
  4. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

59 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
10:19 amTraining and testing53 sbbd468c0
10:55 amRadio call1 min 21 sacd83430
11:12 amRadio call12 min9b8dacb9
11:13 amTraining and testing3 minee33a98c
11:33 amTraining and testing12 min54479f0b
11:36 amRadio call7 mincefc81b7
11:56 amRadio call21 min2ca0eb19
11:58 amTraining and testing17 min682adcfe
12:06 pmTraining and testing4 mine4bebbe1
12:12 pmRadio call17 minae599516
12:15 pmTraining and testing4 min61b29cb8
12:29 pmRadio call12 min112523cc
12:33 pmTraining and testing28 min26999bf3
12:52 pmRadio call8 min78a0f2e4
1:04 pmTraining and testing6 mind7dc676f
1:07 pmPatrol support4 minbe94aeb1
1:16 pmRadio call17 min557fdc79
1:17 pmTraining and testing16 s8cd1fb22
1:18 pmTraining and testing4 min3235d76a
1:31 pmRadio call15 minf22f1e98
1:34 pmRadio call13 mine84ae99f
1:47 pmRadio call16 mina7c8fd9f
2:40 pmRadio call17 min38c887f8
3:13 pmRadio call18 min181ccea2
3:33 pmNot stated18 min912a9c3e
3:34 pmPatrol support2 mined8830ee
3:42 pmRadio call10 min6a094278
4:14 pmRadio call9 min0780bb8b
4:16 pmPatrol support4 minbaf1aa08
4:33 pmRadio call17 min28ea8475
4:37 pmRadio call16 min43154df2
5:14 pmNot stated20 minbb6d2242
5:30 pmRadio call21 min082e16cf
5:41 pmRadio call21 mineac60569
5:55 pmRadio call19 min9e5b1a1f
6:05 pmRadio call22 min06ed0074
6:17 pmRadio call18 minbbff1abb
6:23 pmRadio call21 mind05493ea
6:31 pmRadio call16 min0d41779d
6:36 pmRadio call20 mina99ff2a1
6:46 pmRadio call16 min88634a26
6:49 pmRadio call18 min6cbcc6a6
6:58 pmRadio call19 minee195500
7:03 pmRadio call21 min94767e15
7:10 pmRadio call18 min1f1b3249
7:18 pmRadio call15 min1a6536e7
7:24 pmRadio call20 mina314105a
7:30 pmRadio call7 min2031358b
7:47 pmPatrol support20 minaf4f98bc
8:07 pmPatrol support21 min664a3fb5
8:10 pmPatrol support14 min641d04a4
8:42 pmPatrol support19 min4073b2a8
8:47 pmPatrol support20 mincd4b7b4c
8:59 pmPatrol support12 min233af182
9:08 pmPatrol support22 min0f168f76
9:27 pmRadio call20 min74190790
9:46 pmPatrol support12 minb58e0d73
9:49 pmPatrol support9 minc23496ac
10:11 pmRadio call11 min4e63a430

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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