drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:54 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 69 times on Saturday 5 September 2026, the first at 12:55 am and the last at 10:54 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

69 drawable flights of 69. 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

Radio call54%
Patrol support41%
Call for service6%

Flights, in order

69 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:55 am	Radio call	2 min	`fd6a5626`
1:28 am	Radio call	14 min	`46431109`
1:44 am	Radio call	20 min	`a50da098`
1:54 am	Patrol support	9 min	`be8b461a`
2:18 am	Radio call	7 min	`ab0efaf1`
2:50 am	Radio call	21 min	`7874c27e`
2:56 am	Patrol support	19 min	`2b217be5`
3:13 am	Radio call	22 min	`e4b6311a`
3:19 am	Patrol support	19 min	`a45df0ae`
3:36 am	Patrol support	20 min	`c45a375a`
3:38 am	Radio call	16 min	`04e3528c`
3:45 am	Patrol support	20 min	`ea2afb74`
3:51 am	Patrol support	21 min	`e598bd54`
4:09 am	Patrol support	20 min	`57989cb2`
4:28 am	Patrol support	21 min	`d5b2308a`
4:46 am	Patrol support	21 min	`da123084`
4:48 am	Patrol support	20 min	`f51eeaed`
5:00 am	Patrol support	17 min	`e938adcc`
5:19 am	Patrol support	20 min	`c72d986c`
5:32 am	Patrol support	22 min	`00259e9e`
5:50 am	Patrol support	20 min	`d37000b5`
6:06 am	Patrol support	21 min	`40215a72`
6:11 am	Patrol support	22 min	`2a469b32`
6:31 am	Patrol support	24 min	`b4a6a380`
6:44 am	Patrol support	24 min	`c224fa98`
7:06 am	Patrol support	21 min	`04d10fa7`
7:25 am	Patrol support	24 min	`9f693f1c`
7:45 am	Patrol support	21 min	`20731f51`
8:04 am	Patrol support	20 min	`0a2cfa4a`
8:22 am	Radio call	21 min	`b4199d1e`
8:32 am	Patrol support	14 min	`f836a01e`
8:39 am	Patrol support	15 min	`65f537c1`
8:46 am	Patrol support	5 min	`6da96cf2`
8:49 am	Radio call	23 min	`299b2e0a`
4:21 pm	Radio call	15 min	`506c11da`
4:29 pm	Radio call	18 min	`0f2293ff`
4:49 pm	Radio call	10 min	`0e70ec55`
5:11 pm	Call for service	9 min	`db537502`
5:24 pm	Call for service	10 min	`95d9cd0f`
5:40 pm	Radio call	19 min	`dc652fec`
5:42 pm	Radio call	6 min	`de791e27`
5:51 pm	Radio call	17 min	`1786622a`
6:01 pm	Radio call	11 min	`2e998e96`
6:14 pm	Radio call	12 min	`ab8af4bf`
6:32 pm	Radio call	5 min	`8cf16465`
6:36 pm	Patrol support	12 min	`23679642`
6:48 pm	Radio call	5 min	`b3149867`
6:52 pm	Radio call	8 min	`af5700d7`
7:43 pm	Radio call	17 min	`5ee720b3`
7:58 pm	Radio call	10 min	`5013947f`
8:06 pm	Radio call	14 min	`1fae3b81`
8:13 pm	Radio call	11 min	`b6330679`
8:30 pm	Radio call	8 min	`4123dd3b`
8:31 pm	Radio call	10 min	`c5481c02`
8:35 pm	Radio call	8 min	`e3c8226e`
8:39 pm	Radio call	15 min	`d89acf73`
8:45 pm	Call for service	12 min	`7e575f27`
8:51 pm	Radio call	9 min	`3b7a1287`
9:17 pm	Call for service	12 min	`0e33338e`
9:24 pm	Radio call	12 min	`a96f6981`
9:24 pm	Radio call	10 min	`050e1dae`
9:35 pm	Radio call	12 min	`b4bd9544`
9:41 pm	Patrol support	1 min 16 s	`eff94974`
9:44 pm	Radio call	12 min	`8f304ccb`
9:54 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`a4a1e4dd`
10:27 pm	Radio call	12 min	`eed5602d`
10:40 pm	Radio call	8 min	`7b58ebe9`
10:49 pm	Radio call	8 min	`70d42a73`
10:54 pm	Radio call	9 min	`3c9d2016`

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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