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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 18 April 2026

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

32

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:32 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:06 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 32 times on Saturday 18 April 2026, the first at 12:32 pm and the last at 9:06 pm PDT, 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call97%
  2. Patrol support3%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:32 pmRadio call14 minfec2e15a
12:53 pmRadio call13 min074c16bf
1:24 pmRadio call10 min6a977cef
1:29 pmRadio call18 min7a640853
1:39 pmRadio call5 min38835de8
2:04 pmRadio call10 min705962ae
2:36 pmRadio call10 min594a1138
3:04 pmRadio call9 min91880e0c
3:10 pmRadio call2 min 00 se463e85d
3:19 pmRadio call12 min6b6b3770
3:45 pmRadio call13 minff63901f
3:49 pmRadio call8 min3a4a7a4a
4:10 pmPatrol support3 minbbbe7928
4:14 pmRadio call14 min045df4fe
4:29 pmRadio call7 min1b3705a4
4:35 pmRadio call9 minc885f781
4:49 pmRadio call16 mind0a32e9f
5:09 pmRadio call20 mine91267af
5:19 pmRadio call9 min8fc406fe
5:32 pmRadio call10 min57c9ae00
5:36 pmRadio call6 min19f0ff29
5:47 pmRadio call14 min28e9274e
6:07 pmRadio call12 minbfbb0b7b
6:57 pmRadio call11 min0eb1ea0c
6:59 pmRadio call15 minc3f542a4
7:09 pmRadio call11 minc03a8b6b
7:17 pmRadio call15 min197343ba
7:46 pmRadio call14 min629007c4
7:49 pmRadio call7 minedf995db
8:03 pmRadio call10 mina47d53b0
8:50 pmRadio call19 mina313d674
9:06 pmRadio call14 min26e2042d

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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