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Los Angeles, California · one day

Sunday 26 July 2026

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

49

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:46 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:10 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 49 times on Sunday 26 July 2026, the first at 12:46 pm and the last at 9:10 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

49 drawable flights of 49. 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. Not stated4%
  3. Call for service2%

Flights, in order

49 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
12:46 pmRadio call16 min52ad9f1d
12:54 pmRadio call13 min773e1339
1:23 pmRadio call6 min663fc949
1:48 pmRadio call14 min3e34a09b
2:05 pmRadio call6 mina9f3e3b4
2:15 pmRadio call15 mine1835fcc
2:59 pmRadio call12 min94885202
3:00 pmNot stated9 min7197e4ea
3:03 pmRadio call10 min761fb5cc
3:05 pmRadio call12 min5d30e91d
3:12 pmRadio call9 minab824afe
3:34 pmRadio call12 minf25653c3
3:41 pmRadio call12 min70557caf
3:48 pmRadio call15 min5b3f2ab9
3:51 pmRadio call9 min422e7436
4:10 pmRadio call16 minc72e098b
4:12 pmRadio call14 mine2b66bb3
4:15 pmRadio call9 min4231735a
4:21 pmRadio call15 min34067236
4:31 pmRadio call3 min1e4ec37c
4:36 pmRadio call11 min26f3cf76
4:39 pmRadio call16 min6efd4fe5
4:53 pmRadio call14 min62a23bf8
4:57 pmRadio call16 min92381411
5:06 pmRadio call16 minba3cf8cd
5:29 pmRadio call16 minc8ab9b37
5:40 pmRadio call15 min01c8af29
5:45 pmRadio call12 minfbc971c8
5:51 pmRadio call9 min6bec92af
5:53 pmRadio call8 minb921e43e
6:12 pmRadio call12 min488e4236
6:27 pmRadio call8 min3690d06d
6:27 pmRadio call22 min05cf263f
6:38 pmRadio call14 mine26f47fe
6:50 pmRadio call19 minf4a7115c
7:09 pmRadio call13 min346af1c3
7:24 pmRadio call14 min42d344d2
7:40 pmRadio call13 min4825f98f
7:53 pmRadio call14 min21dcd34a
7:55 pmRadio call19 min84a52918
8:09 pmRadio call17 min607f124a
8:14 pmRadio call12 minf2284be2
8:24 pmCall for service9 min50e79961
8:42 pmRadio call7 minab5a1bc3
8:46 pmNot stated11 min4e859de2
8:54 pmRadio call3 min9ba6fcf3
9:03 pmRadio call8 min932f9928
9:04 pmRadio call10 min4757d754
9:10 pmRadio call12 minf893cd69

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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