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Los Angeles, California · one day

Tuesday 28 July 2026

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

39

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:16 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:45 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 39 times on Tuesday 28 July 2026, the first at 1:16 pm and the last at 8:45 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

39 drawable flights of 39. 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 call87%
  2. Call for service13%

Flights, in order

39 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
1:16 pmCall for service5 min43f09970
1:55 pmRadio call16 min75373b27
1:59 pmRadio call16 min224ce4a5
2:04 pmRadio call16 mindd160b33
2:26 pmRadio call13 min88c19b40
2:29 pmCall for service11 min2be38d59
2:42 pmRadio call16 min6429bbaf
2:59 pmRadio call17 min071c6101
3:03 pmRadio call12 min0e6feab2
3:07 pmRadio call9 mind5d0e495
3:16 pmRadio call16 minb377becf
3:24 pmRadio call7 min8624ac8c
3:37 pmRadio call18 mineb83a8da
3:40 pmRadio call16 minb0a812e0
3:44 pmRadio call14 minc3113318
5:16 pmRadio call14 min516a9ff8
5:29 pmRadio call14 min85b58161
5:33 pmRadio call6 min310bdd18
5:40 pmRadio call13 min76c961f2
5:51 pmRadio call10 min1466b8c9
5:54 pmRadio call9 min227de67e
6:06 pmRadio call16 min7d865236
6:12 pmRadio call19 min31ca356a
6:25 pmRadio call12 mine456fb65
6:25 pmCall for service19 minf7b66507
6:25 pmRadio call19 min328e4867
6:36 pmRadio call11 min3383528e
6:56 pmRadio call15 min850402ec
6:57 pmCall for service22 mincf600caa
7:03 pmRadio call12 minc52d42c2
7:07 pmRadio call7 min40686bf8
7:14 pmCall for service19 minb593172f
7:42 pmRadio call6 mincb4dbee7
7:52 pmRadio call18 minf2ed056e
8:07 pmRadio call9 min2431acf7
8:27 pmRadio call13 minf929679b
8:35 pmRadio call17 mind07687fe
8:42 pmRadio call8 mind8fc0e8f
8:45 pmRadio call15 minf6e12dbe

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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