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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 13 August 2026

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

53

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

9:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:21 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 53 times on Thursday 13 August 2026, the first at 9:34 am and the last at 9:21 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

53 drawable flights of 53. 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 call75%
  2. Patrol support17%
  3. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

53 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
9:34 amPatrol support11 min58d5560a
10:01 amRadio call18 min85bf561d
10:02 amPatrol support20 minc26e6d62
10:14 amRadio call15 min76f60a89
10:16 amPatrol support16 mine29c8a94
10:22 amPatrol support12 minbb606f59
10:25 amPatrol support11 min18158ccc
12:07 pmRadio call21 min1af1d1cd
12:47 pmRadio call3 min7de6c6ec
12:58 pmRadio call8 min1a8a1f63
1:14 pmRadio call6 mind724562b
1:33 pmRadio call15 min326b4f4c
1:56 pmRadio call4 minf4519816
1:57 pmRadio call16 minf2cdb5d0
2:11 pmCall for service12 minaece69b5
2:23 pmPatrol support12 min1b16d9f8
2:31 pmCall for service8 mined6579ec
2:34 pmRadio call14 min0325519b
3:15 pmRadio call11 min24fb0dff
3:28 pmRadio call10 min54c29e01
3:30 pmRadio call7 min36607d2b
3:35 pmPatrol support13 min352ad9dc
3:45 pmRadio call16 minb39a262e
4:25 pmRadio call15 minaec18823
4:31 pmRadio call7 min31a843cf
4:46 pmPatrol support16 min39200b78
4:56 pmRadio call21 min150cb86a
4:57 pmPatrol support1 min 20 s8c4edf43
5:04 pmRadio call10 min7f4033f3
5:09 pmRadio call12 min4c202986
5:12 pmRadio call7 minc4c9b8c2
5:21 pmRadio call16 min50a831d5
5:24 pmRadio call11 minf60a2b72
5:33 pmRadio call7 mine8c29c91
5:37 pmCall for service8 min1cea0414
5:46 pmRadio call16 min147360a0
5:49 pmRadio call6 min7e46003b
5:53 pmCall for service14 minad133333
5:57 pmRadio call13 min61e43bc2
7:02 pmRadio call16 min230a05f7
7:16 pmRadio call12 mind16151b0
7:27 pmRadio call11 min0a53f53b
7:30 pmRadio call13 min93526f24
7:38 pmRadio call11 min2a703e76
7:42 pmRadio call18 minad258aed
7:44 pmRadio call13 minb410fb98
8:01 pmRadio call14 min69ebad73
8:14 pmRadio call15 min20fc9afd
8:28 pmRadio call4 min116436a6
8:31 pmRadio call11 min36b288c0
8:59 pmRadio call15 min7c1cc41b
9:09 pmRadio call17 min5a83e013
9:21 pmRadio call13 min24811956

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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