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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 30 October 2026

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

41

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:39 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:03 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 41 times on Friday 30 October 2026, the first at 1:39 pm and the last at 11:03 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

41 drawable flights of 41. 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 call78%
  2. Patrol support15%
  3. Call for service7%

Flights, in order

41 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
1:39 pmCall for service44 sf3527942
1:41 pmRadio call9 mind9c2973e
2:01 pmRadio call16 min20ea2784
2:10 pmRadio call11 min6a8cf2e9
2:14 pmRadio call7 mincf1e673b
2:29 pmRadio call13 minc7a9bbf4
2:46 pmRadio call9 min1740f318
3:22 pmRadio call6 mined43cb51
3:30 pmRadio call14 mine01b7fcf
3:37 pmRadio call8 min0378867e
3:49 pmPatrol support10 min11848571
3:57 pmRadio call13 min720f13a9
4:20 pmRadio call6 min859c48dd
4:24 pmRadio call17 minfd43cad4
4:40 pmRadio call6 mine1de4724
5:05 pmRadio call5 min196526ef
5:23 pmRadio call10 min37e10d84
5:31 pmRadio call13 min37a92ee8
5:49 pmRadio call9 min8ad14f4d
6:02 pmRadio call8 min4f7425f6
6:07 pmRadio call19 min2290fcac
6:19 pmCall for service4 min8b638b1f
6:28 pmRadio call4 min7c309e40
6:36 pmPatrol support9 min7e909645
6:47 pmRadio call14 min00cbee11
7:07 pmRadio call16 min91e482e1
7:37 pmRadio call10 min2e3b59e4
7:47 pmRadio call15 minfe53b32e
8:23 pmRadio call12 min5c8b917d
8:39 pmCall for service14 minbcefe5df
8:48 pmRadio call6 min836a3d00
9:04 pmPatrol support10 min0d706b4c
9:24 pmRadio call5 minfe3831fe
9:30 pmRadio call13 min658c60ac
9:45 pmPatrol support17 min472337cd
9:55 pmPatrol support15 mina60c6a53
10:05 pmPatrol support6 min1303fc29
10:15 pmRadio call17 min2fc13038
10:39 pmRadio call14 min5ab334db
10:54 pmRadio call15 min33915f20
11:03 pmRadio call5 min7d9e7817

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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