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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 14 September 2026

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

40

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

2:49 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:07 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 40 times on Monday 14 September 2026, the first at 2:49 pm and the last at 11:07 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 call92%
  2. Patrol support5%
  3. Not stated2%

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
2:49 pmRadio call6 min7298a1f7
2:52 pmRadio call10 min2bae376b
3:05 pmRadio call5 min0d5f36e2
3:10 pmRadio call12 minab7c91a6
3:15 pmPatrol support15 minfc5ab2f1
3:49 pmRadio call12 min7fb66bbd
3:50 pmRadio call14 min368114c1
3:52 pmRadio call13 min4c027291
4:02 pmRadio call4 min712a8bfd
4:10 pmRadio call13 minb79d31f5
4:10 pmRadio call14 min77d9fae9
4:23 pmPatrol support7 minc5e84f41
4:33 pmRadio call17 min98c9c52d
4:43 pmRadio call13 min34772281
5:02 pmRadio call12 min19f8feac
5:04 pmRadio call12 min498c21b1
5:15 pmRadio call15 min8c850441
5:18 pmRadio call10 min7fb73f6b
6:07 pmNot stated14 minff5d9ccd
6:14 pmRadio call10 mind68e80d0
6:39 pmRadio call13 min4ca2b160
7:04 pmRadio call7 min8b81caeb
7:15 pmRadio call15 minb1fb1b7b
7:22 pmRadio call12 min0e39b98c
7:40 pmRadio call8 min455d56a1
7:49 pmRadio call10 min4e43fa46
8:07 pmRadio call12 min21c206e0
8:07 pmRadio call15 minfd61022b
8:19 pmRadio call17 min7706f65c
8:33 pmRadio call9 min2a8beebd
9:17 pmRadio call10 min3f945c27
9:45 pmRadio call9 mineb60b702
9:47 pmRadio call13 min44f725b4
9:49 pmRadio call15 min2db9a544
10:10 pmRadio call14 min4975b36c
10:12 pmRadio call12 min5690f8c3
10:31 pmRadio call13 min9b500187
10:36 pmRadio call13 minad52dd00
11:05 pmRadio call11 min2d67db9c
11:07 pmRadio call15 mind8774eb9

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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