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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 28 August 2026

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

36

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

2:46 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:10 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 36 times on Friday 28 August 2026, the first at 2:46 pm and the last at 11:10 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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 call92%
  2. Call for service3%
  3. Not stated3%
  4. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

36 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
2:46 pmRadio call8 min7564b9b7
2:52 pmCall for service6 min30625473
3:13 pmRadio call6 min541faea3
3:22 pmNot stated15 minfa680c0f
3:29 pmRadio call18 min57d4035e
4:00 pmRadio call7 min3a6c1951
4:12 pmRadio call14 mincfdf9f8a
4:13 pmRadio call13 min44849261
4:33 pmRadio call15 minb755f9c5
4:34 pmRadio call11 min993ca58f
4:39 pmRadio call12 min07471652
4:50 pmRadio call16 min5d7e7cc7
4:54 pmRadio call16 min586a0055
5:03 pmRadio call18 min2c51d23d
5:31 pmRadio call13 minea9cfafb
5:57 pmRadio call10 min0c42a8f8
6:08 pmRadio call7 mindb57bc28
6:22 pmRadio call14 min9bcd5fcf
6:27 pmRadio call10 min13d89d85
6:40 pmRadio call17 min00137df0
6:56 pmRadio call11 min657d9968
7:29 pmRadio call8 min368651a8
7:38 pmRadio call6 min697c17e6
7:55 pmRadio call12 min3eb2cefd
8:08 pmRadio call11 minc61df36d
8:09 pmRadio call9 min85c6948a
8:20 pmRadio call10 min43f7443d
8:22 pmRadio call10 min9184121b
8:36 pmRadio call10 min574b1f8b
8:50 pmRadio call13 min2baef50d
8:54 pmPatrol support18 minc9f0b13c
9:41 pmRadio call14 min25e96dca
9:50 pmRadio call15 min4ce3db6f
10:01 pmRadio call18 minb956267f
10:43 pmRadio call14 min6939102a
11:10 pmRadio call11 min9f70adb2

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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