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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 22 July 2026

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

31

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:10 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:33 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 31 times on Wednesday 22 July 2026, the first at 1:10 pm and the last at 9:33 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call94%
  2. Patrol support3%
  3. Training and testing3%

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
1:10 pmRadio call10 min505cb403
1:46 pmRadio call6 min5e0689ba
2:11 pmRadio call9 min358f092f
2:26 pmRadio call16 minb6b766d6
2:35 pmRadio call7 min11040a44
3:15 pmRadio call10 min130ed4da
3:32 pmRadio call19 min4124e21c
3:52 pmRadio call7 min134b27c7
3:55 pmRadio call12 min8b4e138e
4:05 pmRadio call14 min74106eeb
4:24 pmRadio call7 min095296e4
4:59 pmRadio call14 minf828f98f
5:20 pmRadio call13 min247e3295
5:33 pmRadio call12 minb53df9c6
5:38 pmRadio call15 min2b801a71
6:10 pmRadio call12 min8a0b203b
6:13 pmRadio call16 minaacb8e52
6:21 pmRadio call13 mine9bd0291
6:33 pmRadio call5 min3d4471e8
6:43 pmRadio call20 min510ebd73
6:44 pmRadio call14 minaeb487d2
7:00 pmRadio call7 min7675b6b4
7:20 pmRadio call11 min61858670
7:22 pmRadio call18 min1c6eb3ac
7:48 pmRadio call7 mina6aa528c
7:51 pmRadio call16 min85b38ed9
8:04 pmRadio call20 min9b0f515a
8:24 pmRadio call14 min2b1a3532
8:28 pmPatrol support17 min15d0a993
9:22 pmRadio call16 minaae62c26
9:33 pmTraining and testing4 min150ba928

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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