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Los Angeles, California · one day

Tuesday 5 May 2026

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

33

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:42 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:43 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 33 times on Tuesday 5 May 2026, the first at 1:42 pm and the last at 10:43 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

33 drawable flights of 33. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call82%
  2. Call for service9%
  3. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

33 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
1:42 pmRadio call14 min99539fdb
1:46 pmRadio call17 min080f0869
2:08 pmRadio call18 min4521a7e6
2:35 pmRadio call13 minb72d6fe8
3:01 pmRadio call13 min6876bd4f
3:37 pmRadio call10 min3810f0ea
4:20 pmRadio call13 min6cf01276
4:27 pmRadio call15 minaee03590
4:54 pmRadio call16 min4c45ca80
5:05 pmRadio call14 minc8d8d604
5:22 pmRadio call13 min4d6addc2
5:26 pmRadio call20 minf80b77d5
5:43 pmRadio call21 minc65f34dc
5:55 pmRadio call9 min96b9d4f1
6:08 pmRadio call12 min99b2e952
6:14 pmRadio call15 min958d469a
6:39 pmRadio call9 min59b46eb4
6:53 pmCall for service18 min62edff6b
6:58 pmRadio call12 mind99aad42
7:12 pmRadio call19 min38e89d40
7:27 pmRadio call17 mina662a497
7:41 pmRadio call16 minf6210f18
7:53 pmRadio call6 min0868b1be
8:08 pmCall for service13 mine026d3df
8:20 pmRadio call16 mina440b0e2
8:30 pmRadio call18 mind4254761
8:45 pmRadio call19 minec25bdc9
8:54 pmRadio call21 min6ef5535a
9:13 pmRadio call5 minc4515247
10:14 pmPatrol support19 min1dd42cb7
10:22 pmPatrol support20 min8a026941
10:34 pmPatrol support19 min1275c0cb
10:43 pmCall for service10 mind86f68c3

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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