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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 28 September 2026

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

53

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:29 pm

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

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 53 times on Monday 28 September 2026, the first at 12:29 pm and the last at 11:10 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

53 drawable flights of 53. 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 call96%
  2. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

53 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
12:29 pmRadio call13 mina33b3eb1
1:08 pmRadio call11 min5e04071f
1:12 pmRadio call12 min1433eb86
1:13 pmRadio call11 mina2c90754
1:31 pmRadio call6 mind7747ad7
1:36 pmRadio call11 minfa72e4d2
1:43 pmRadio call8 mine9fedc13
2:04 pmRadio call16 minb5d98309
2:07 pmRadio call16 min3d1e4f66
2:17 pmRadio call11 minf03d788c
2:32 pmCall for service6 minbd947efe
2:59 pmRadio call18 minbdfdb6ec
3:26 pmRadio call14 minf1f0fe0c
3:35 pmRadio call7 min28fe9647
4:00 pmRadio call15 minadd3de8f
4:01 pmRadio call10 min02486a84
4:14 pmRadio call13 minb375aa6a
4:38 pmRadio call19 min243aa2aa
4:45 pmRadio call3 min128f7788
5:03 pmRadio call14 min6452ee95
5:13 pmRadio call16 min52b9c572
5:31 pmRadio call12 min230cb35b
5:33 pmRadio call12 minc83d0898
5:40 pmRadio call20 min7dd824a2
5:46 pmRadio call12 min40498d4c
5:55 pmRadio call7 minc79c68f3
6:07 pmRadio call13 min7a055c5e
6:23 pmRadio call12 min39e9f6e3
6:27 pmRadio call8 min27bb34d5
6:32 pmRadio call17 minf9b6f614
6:40 pmRadio call8 min8f6f034b
6:49 pmRadio call14 min729ed577
6:59 pmRadio call13 min95747d66
7:01 pmRadio call13 mina26fa3b3
7:14 pmCall for service15 min42c32a75
7:20 pmRadio call8 min266323d7
7:33 pmRadio call6 min217ea40f
7:36 pmRadio call12 min544e573c
7:49 pmRadio call11 minec50f2c9
8:21 pmRadio call7 mindae11ae0
8:40 pmRadio call9 min42ef8011
8:57 pmRadio call15 min45b17328
9:05 pmRadio call10 min906bf410
9:08 pmRadio call14 min22e1e415
9:31 pmRadio call9 minf4627452
9:32 pmRadio call5 min23ad23bf
9:35 pmRadio call16 min23a743cc
9:43 pmRadio call11 mind25e106c
10:14 pmRadio call9 min363d99de
10:40 pmRadio call11 min2cc895a1
11:00 pmRadio call15 mine8092a0f
11:09 pmRadio call11 mind316892b
11:10 pmRadio call10 mind28850b9

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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