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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 6 February 2026

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

29

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:03 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 29 times on Friday 6 February 2026, the first at 10:53 am and the last at 7:03 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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 call48%
  2. Patrol support34%
  3. Training and testing14%
  4. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

29 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
10:53 amPatrol support18 minad84ce22
11:06 amNot stated15 min47cbe424
11:17 amTraining and testing5 minbfaabf47
11:37 amPatrol support12 min91f05869
11:48 amPatrol support16 min2c0f8abf
11:52 amPatrol support14 min72ff8204
12:20 pmRadio call17 min07aeaa42
12:36 pmPatrol support17 min83d0be40
12:58 pmPatrol support13 minb831b1b1
1:01 pmRadio call9 mindd134c2f
1:14 pmTraining and testing13 min6a99a7af
1:22 pmRadio call10 min0133b407
1:23 pmRadio call11 min23c74062
1:33 pmRadio call17 mind7ef2bab
2:06 pmPatrol support17 min2698359a
2:11 pmTraining and testing14 minf2d454db
2:29 pmRadio call17 min9cb8b1b7
3:10 pmRadio call13 min0c133592
3:25 pmTraining and testing18 min30d12245
3:28 pmPatrol support7 mind5b93052
3:46 pmPatrol support15 mind7d5b046
3:56 pmPatrol support13 min8b06d977
4:32 pmRadio call17 min406c4e4e
4:36 pmRadio call19 minc4719597
5:02 pmRadio call10 min2365507f
5:46 pmRadio call14 min97b884c6
5:48 pmRadio call19 min4258b02c
6:35 pmRadio call11 min33e47436
7:03 pmRadio call16 min30e7192a

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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