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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 17 July 2026

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

31

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:38 pm

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

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 31 times on Friday 17 July 2026, the first at 12:38 pm and the last at 9:06 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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 call90%
  2. Call for service10%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:38 pmCall for service8 min9e56076b
1:37 pmRadio call13 mina04fc755
1:54 pmRadio call16 min8c8df4ef
1:55 pmRadio call13 min68f1ca2f
2:14 pmRadio call12 mind0a81903
2:16 pmRadio call13 min6c99f76f
2:27 pmCall for service10 min99ce3db6
2:34 pmRadio call9 mincb507576
3:14 pmRadio call10 min60673486
3:32 pmRadio call15 min2fc45454
3:33 pmCall for service7 mina6664b1a
3:41 pmRadio call16 min8f452823
3:52 pmRadio call8 mina2fef177
4:00 pmRadio call16 min1feca426
4:15 pmRadio call12 min0fcd2341
4:17 pmRadio call16 min1506b4c6
4:41 pmRadio call6 min06dbf48d
5:03 pmRadio call7 min6ec17fa9
5:18 pmRadio call16 mind6aa3b7b
5:23 pmRadio call13 min7acde7b6
5:48 pmRadio call14 min57603ada
6:00 pmRadio call16 minc2c677ad
6:22 pmRadio call6 min72e8d09b
6:29 pmRadio call8 min5f8eaf4f
7:11 pmRadio call18 min8a05e814
7:44 pmRadio call10 mindd9a8c5c
7:52 pmRadio call12 mincf6a909a
8:02 pmRadio call9 min0b430a23
8:14 pmRadio call10 min6e7a492e
8:43 pmRadio call10 min0d57db83
9:06 pmRadio call8 min883470a0

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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