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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 29 April 2026

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

38

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:45 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:07 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 38 times on Wednesday 29 April 2026, the first at 12:45 pm and the last at 9:07 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

38 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
12:45 pmRadio call14 minc755419d
12:49 pmRadio call11 min01e8f56c
12:57 pmRadio call14 min3dc4ccc7
1:07 pmRadio call6 min06d425af
1:15 pmCall for service8 min44095c7a
1:23 pmRadio call14 min5e3c2a86
1:42 pmRadio call16 mindb2a58df
1:55 pmRadio call13 minab2252d9
2:09 pmRadio call16 minca3262ee
2:16 pmRadio call7 mincd17a4b2
2:29 pmRadio call20 min7336820e
2:44 pmRadio call15 min2a0e8cec
3:07 pmRadio call13 min3cd3857a
3:17 pmRadio call6 minf131ae89
3:38 pmRadio call13 minc88a2a46
3:48 pmRadio call7 min7b3bafe7
3:55 pmRadio call6 minc9655022
4:13 pmRadio call14 minc861b2b4
4:21 pmRadio call3 min0bdce07f
4:49 pmRadio call16 min8650c2d8
4:50 pmRadio call10 minfe933f1c
5:02 pmRadio call10 mine1087958
5:12 pmRadio call18 minef52ec25
5:18 pmRadio call10 min0ae11de6
5:39 pmRadio call15 minc62e1c8e
5:51 pmRadio call10 min8400f82f
5:55 pmRadio call6 mina2354357
6:08 pmRadio call16 mina1377491
6:26 pmRadio call12 minebed5d3d
6:27 pmRadio call14 min01082049
6:35 pmRadio call13 minfb98322d
6:53 pmRadio call22 min4ce8edfd
7:04 pmRadio call8 min2b88dd13
7:17 pmRadio call12 minca0f5919
8:01 pmRadio call9 min4d626511
8:11 pmRadio call21 min0e2c3ed5
8:58 pmRadio call12 min108eac3a
9:07 pmRadio call7 mincb2a6599

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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