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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 31 January 2026

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

63

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 63 times on Saturday 31 January 2026, the first at 10:50 am and the last at 11:53 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

63 drawable flights of 63. 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 support43%
  2. Radio call35%
  3. Call for service16%
  4. Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

63 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
10:50 amRadio call18 min52a918ea
10:55 amPatrol support44 s6990cc95
10:58 amPatrol support18 min8cc8ee9e
11:10 amRadio call20 minff419bbb
11:23 amPatrol support18 min955268ec
11:32 amRadio call14 min1ba02489
12:40 pmPatrol support6 min60d68387
12:46 pmPatrol support55 sb9d960c8
12:48 pmTraining and testing5 min0442ce0b
12:53 pmRadio call9 min8ba3ed37
1:05 pmRadio call14 mincec19f45
1:24 pmRadio call14 minf6c87356
1:32 pmRadio call19 min779690af
1:47 pmRadio call7 mina58195cc
2:03 pmTraining and testing1 min 08 sb9b19f93
2:54 pmRadio call6 min17e98ab4
3:12 pmRadio call16 minc90751e1
3:31 pmRadio call14 mine8a86b62
3:46 pmRadio call8 minfb3e1cbd
3:56 pmRadio call19 min03b8cb34
4:07 pmRadio call16 minc51fddd0
4:21 pmPatrol support16 min62a11ed0
4:42 pmRadio call14 mincc1e32ad
4:52 pmRadio call14 minf846ff65
4:59 pmRadio call18 minac3bd9be
5:11 pmCall for service1 min 30 sdfd3866e
5:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 06 sda785f0b
6:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 s910ef55d
6:17 pmRadio call12 mina3b36896
6:33 pmRadio call17 min551b1070
6:55 pmRadio call18 min6663864c
7:01 pmPatrol support14 min68deffb6
7:26 pmRadio call13 minfb626502
7:38 pmPatrol support19 min1a72f96c
7:54 pmRadio call20 min08ee5f5d
8:12 pmPatrol support20 min9cfa55af
8:28 pmPatrol support21 min4473d7a8
8:45 pmCall for service20 min490051b1
8:51 pmPatrol support22 min93d2916f
9:03 pmPatrol support18 min510d4bfe
9:08 pmCall for service20 min2aaa18c4
9:16 pmPatrol support20 min90ccfce6
9:23 pmPatrol support17 mine88eec5d
9:32 pmCall for service17 min8666d107
9:36 pmPatrol support18 min4926ea23
9:43 pmPatrol support18 min8d1cc1e7
9:52 pmCall for service22 min622328b2
9:55 pmPatrol support16 min9732b58c
10:04 pmPatrol support22 min5d801c3a
10:11 pmPatrol support17 min550c3575
10:21 pmCall for service18 minf9e77040
10:26 pmPatrol support19 min1fad625a
10:34 pmPatrol support19 minc9c610d0
10:41 pmCall for service17 minfc0634f2
10:48 pmPatrol support19 min0d8514e3
10:55 pmPatrol support20 min39b5a4ad
11:02 pmCall for service17 mincf8db214
11:10 pmPatrol support22 minf0d21c4e
11:18 pmPatrol support23 mina5e28dff
11:28 pmCall for service17 minf682654a
11:37 pmPatrol support20 mind4059d7b
11:42 pmPatrol support17 minf07a2ff8
11:53 pmCall for service7 min0c917177

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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