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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 28 May 2026

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

35

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:59 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 35 times on Thursday 28 May 2026, the first at 11:45 am and the last at 8:59 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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 call94%
  2. Patrol support3%
  3. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

35 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
11:45 amRadio call22 minebe69878
11:57 amRadio call21 min089b478d
12:32 pmRadio call21 min3de1400b
12:50 pmPatrol support21 mina14e1563
1:08 pmRadio call18 mina25ac309
1:22 pmRadio call7 min4cc88c44
1:35 pmRadio call16 min0e7bdf04
1:49 pmRadio call17 minc3acd904
1:59 pmRadio call18 mind69b930e
2:04 pmRadio call14 min9946e90d
2:30 pmRadio call17 min8c982531
2:44 pmRadio call16 min1b662cb9
2:44 pmRadio call18 mina34bfd5b
3:12 pmRadio call9 minfc600955
3:23 pmRadio call5 mina43d3d37
3:37 pmRadio call18 mine24cb341
3:49 pmRadio call3 min4272b9a1
4:03 pmRadio call12 min625d366e
4:05 pmRadio call15 minc63490bd
5:03 pmRadio call8 min9a29e64b
5:18 pmRadio call20 minad1ff76c
5:22 pmRadio call14 min331e2183
5:30 pmRadio call12 mine0933ddf
5:49 pmRadio call13 min7a9f85fd
6:03 pmRadio call9 min96a1cc93
6:19 pmRadio call13 min4c2dbb5e
6:20 pmRadio call13 minabffd004
6:45 pmRadio call8 min40e54459
6:57 pmRadio call17 min813902b6
7:41 pmRadio call12 min2d8a62d6
7:50 pmRadio call12 min802696cb
7:54 pmRadio call9 mind8cdc689
8:20 pmCall for service9 min15815350
8:27 pmRadio call10 min674ae5f0
8:59 pmRadio call18 mina97f01a3

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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