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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 21 September 2026

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

42

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:57 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:41 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 42 times on Monday 21 September 2026, the first at 12:57 pm and the last at 9:41 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

42 drawable flights of 42. 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 call71%
  2. Call for service26%
  3. Patrol support2%

Flights, in order

42 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
12:57 pmRadio call18 mindd54c452
12:57 pmRadio call6 min4cee0959
1:14 pmRadio call20 min8511bc93
1:32 pmRadio call12 minf65e32f5
2:07 pmRadio call15 min897121a0
2:32 pmRadio call15 min549492f3
2:37 pmRadio call15 min1f15d326
2:57 pmRadio call12 min60819dd3
3:06 pmRadio call12 min249e69a4
3:15 pmRadio call10 min3e0088f4
3:25 pmRadio call10 min42e4a286
3:41 pmRadio call9 min29daf849
3:43 pmRadio call18 min418e7667
3:52 pmRadio call14 minccb9329f
4:18 pmRadio call12 mineb56d58f
4:18 pmRadio call15 mindaf38d80
4:23 pmRadio call18 minf43c5ecc
4:32 pmCall for service1 min 08 sc408f16d
4:36 pmRadio call9 minb1a5c19a
5:00 pmRadio call8 minc8f50c36
5:31 pmRadio call18 minb587a1e2
5:49 pmRadio call8 min43131374
6:20 pmRadio call15 minbcec42d1
6:24 pmPatrol support9 min9a9f3c37
6:41 pmRadio call13 min541a70f5
7:22 pmRadio call7 mind52c2699
7:29 pmCall for service15 min67cd54bb
7:44 pmCall for service14 min66b2b9a7
7:59 pmCall for service13 mine9069e07
8:00 pmRadio call15 min687e9629
8:11 pmRadio call13 mindff22156
8:19 pmCall for service20 min380182c5
8:28 pmCall for service18 minc8bb6541
8:42 pmCall for service18 minc07c430b
8:55 pmCall for service17 min093a61b8
8:58 pmRadio call9 min55629213
9:02 pmCall for service18 min7aa9765c
9:09 pmRadio call14 min5f1b7321
9:14 pmCall for service14 mina7e387d6
9:24 pmRadio call7 mina7efe9af
9:30 pmCall for service9 min4af59a12
9:41 pmRadio call11 mind41684bc

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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