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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 29 July 2026

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

40

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:01 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 7:29 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 40 times on Wednesday 29 July 2026, the first at 12:01 pm and the last at 7:29 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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 call65%
  2. Patrol support30%
  3. Call for service5%

Flights, in order

40 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
12:01 pmPatrol support23 min48039ac1
12:20 pmPatrol support17 min55a5ee50
12:26 pmRadio call18 min1d9f650e
12:32 pmPatrol support19 minf0a3c0b2
12:39 pmPatrol support16 min49c402a6
12:47 pmCall for service20 minb0d2cf54
12:52 pmPatrol support24 min6c0ed9da
1:02 pmPatrol support19 mindf98059c
1:11 pmCall for service9 minf5c7c881
1:52 pmRadio call5 min5709e8d8
2:07 pmRadio call13 min4d38a290
2:07 pmRadio call13 min47d812bd
2:13 pmRadio call11 mine92adcfe
2:24 pmPatrol support9 min84922f08
2:24 pmRadio call7 min8a12d54a
2:31 pmRadio call7 minfc6dd51f
2:49 pmRadio call7 min8d057921
3:01 pmRadio call14 min547b4e07
3:04 pmRadio call10 mineb29f042
3:10 pmRadio call20 minf1e28012
3:17 pmRadio call9 mind8a7d94f
3:23 pmRadio call20 min5a5d1a09
3:44 pmRadio call16 minbc9c5db0
3:57 pmRadio call12 min12f0376d
4:08 pmPatrol support16 min370e536a
4:12 pmPatrol support15 min7d5700cd
4:36 pmRadio call13 mine3caecc9
4:37 pmRadio call15 mine54574e6
4:39 pmRadio call13 min5dc55aff
4:58 pmRadio call11 minfbf46b0f
5:05 pmRadio call13 min6823ead9
5:12 pmRadio call13 mind56996a1
6:13 pmRadio call10 min7e7f4397
6:36 pmRadio call16 min32988355
6:39 pmPatrol support22 min81479a23
6:44 pmPatrol support23 min1b539b56
6:55 pmRadio call19 min135c7ee6
7:05 pmPatrol support2 min739f7deb
7:18 pmRadio call15 min589beb82
7:29 pmRadio call38 s7dc11bf3

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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