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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 26 September 2026

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

52

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:09 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:06 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 52 times on Saturday 26 September 2026, the first at 1:09 pm and the last at 11:06 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

52 drawable flights of 52. 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 call85%
  2. Patrol support12%
  3. Not stated2%
  4. Call for service2%

Flights, in order

52 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
1:09 pmRadio call12 min8e1a2225
1:20 pmRadio call13 min75cdfda6
1:26 pmRadio call13 mina1b4a841
2:00 pmRadio call12 minfa2bce01
2:07 pmPatrol support14 min2469c701
2:14 pmRadio call16 min6f634ddd
2:23 pmRadio call16 min48ae6073
2:32 pmPatrol support17 minc5e146b4
2:43 pmRadio call16 min0d0196b3
2:51 pmRadio call17 min51233f76
3:00 pmRadio call15 min9ce3a8e2
3:10 pmPatrol support21 min7bebed79
3:29 pmPatrol support22 min41ead876
3:38 pmRadio call21 minc96a32a6
3:41 pmRadio call7 mine46eb158
3:50 pmRadio call22 min5e2855e6
3:58 pmPatrol support21 min711a1d49
4:10 pmRadio call22 min1dddb00c
4:17 pmPatrol support17 min3e27bc27
4:53 pmRadio call10 min309a386a
5:21 pmNot stated1 min 13 s78d0232e
5:47 pmRadio call14 min41a2ddc0
5:48 pmRadio call12 min2930a852
6:03 pmRadio call14 min71149d25
6:04 pmRadio call11 min702c552c
6:20 pmRadio call37 se8c3f24b
6:21 pmRadio call12 minefb2fcb8
6:39 pmRadio call11 minc1f91355
6:53 pmRadio call18 min4e3fb1b8
7:00 pmRadio call16 minbd0f4bc1
7:33 pmRadio call4 mincd28ab89
7:41 pmRadio call6 minc282288b
7:49 pmCall for service11 min7e42b2b5
7:50 pmRadio call13 mine7ba88b7
8:07 pmRadio call13 min15610796
8:21 pmRadio call20 min00fdbece
8:47 pmRadio call11 min63551d48
9:02 pmRadio call5 min6949c458
9:12 pmRadio call10 minacf62d49
9:24 pmRadio call12 min7b0db52c
9:28 pmRadio call10 minf842eb08
9:41 pmRadio call12 mine9ffb5ff
9:53 pmRadio call11 minbd28d3a9
9:58 pmRadio call15 min2ff89cfe
10:06 pmRadio call8 minb61dbfb7
10:26 pmRadio call4 mina02bcd05
10:35 pmRadio call15 min9dd95709
10:41 pmRadio call12 min2011f080
10:47 pmRadio call11 min041d4e4d
10:51 pmRadio call11 min4e074f6e
10:59 pmRadio call10 min43a0d05f
11:06 pmRadio call15 minb550f100

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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