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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 27 March 2026

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

29

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:21 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:50 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 29 times on Friday 27 March 2026, the first at 12:21 pm and the last at 8:50 pm PDT, 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call79%
  2. Patrol support21%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:21 pmRadio call7 minbae627e5
1:33 pmPatrol support17 mina30f8cfc
2:06 pmPatrol support16 mine6393d7f
2:14 pmRadio call17 min7b11cf0d
2:16 pmPatrol support16 mine11e7778
2:24 pmRadio call12 minb1b4b7c8
2:25 pmPatrol support19 min7d8f9860
2:32 pmPatrol support17 min1fb32c05
2:37 pmPatrol support14 min4e2cb86d
2:58 pmRadio call15 mind1082004
3:14 pmRadio call6 mincf85ee69
3:52 pmRadio call14 mind95ca2bb
3:58 pmRadio call12 min6be71595
4:31 pmRadio call8 min9c3f5c21
4:42 pmRadio call13 mina9426ef5
5:14 pmRadio call19 minae8b87d5
6:02 pmRadio call9 min71929f8a
6:15 pmRadio call9 min72de5118
6:40 pmRadio call14 minab107a30
7:11 pmRadio call12 min40694b45
7:11 pmRadio call9 mind6bbe7b8
7:27 pmRadio call13 mincbb0c2fe
7:38 pmRadio call16 minada7b434
7:48 pmRadio call14 min81c954ef
7:59 pmRadio call3 min29fc5f60
8:22 pmRadio call10 mina69cb132
8:30 pmRadio call15 minc676d936
8:40 pmRadio call12 min78a65b98
8:50 pmRadio call16 min47acb43f

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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