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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 6 August 2026

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

40

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:02 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:49 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 40 times on Thursday 6 August 2026, the first at 1:02 pm and the last at 8:49 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 call95%
  2. Patrol support5%

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
1:02 pmRadio call9 min54d9d7e3
1:16 pmRadio call12 min02221386
1:39 pmRadio call10 min4d27fea8
1:40 pmRadio call12 min7300ebcb
1:58 pmRadio call9 minf2435ce7
2:14 pmRadio call4 mine5acc64c
2:24 pmRadio call7 min630ea5c3
2:35 pmRadio call12 mina3485740
2:42 pmRadio call11 mine7f24d9e
3:01 pmRadio call8 minaef577eb
3:07 pmRadio call11 min2e36013c
3:29 pmRadio call14 mind5f4e1d2
3:35 pmRadio call11 min321d1703
3:52 pmRadio call14 min1ed69ec0
3:56 pmRadio call14 min5f7f8576
4:07 pmRadio call9 min69b53cac
4:12 pmRadio call19 min8eb554b1
4:28 pmRadio call12 min12cd068c
4:43 pmRadio call14 min4d0fca12
4:51 pmRadio call10 min7a382897
4:59 pmPatrol support15 minc416c10a
5:17 pmRadio call12 minc3aa925d
5:36 pmRadio call10 minf552a540
5:53 pmRadio call12 minc51830a2
5:57 pmRadio call9 min3a65cb26
6:10 pmRadio call8 mina5b14e94
6:19 pmRadio call14 min30a2f611
6:35 pmRadio call18 mind0e54eb3
6:47 pmRadio call11 minee50caec
6:55 pmRadio call14 mina7f13f1d
7:11 pmPatrol support8 mined082866
7:15 pmRadio call10 minbfbbb191
7:25 pmRadio call13 mind018c97d
7:33 pmRadio call17 minedc6186c
7:43 pmRadio call16 mincf9ea871
7:58 pmRadio call12 min248dd849
8:10 pmRadio call13 min02cfc6d1
8:22 pmRadio call11 mined94ae0d
8:42 pmRadio call19 mind924a89a
8:49 pmRadio call18 min50af5ac7

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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