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Los Angeles, California

Arlington Heights, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Arlington Heights.

11

of them in January 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Arlington Heights 11 times between 2 January 2026 and 23 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 January 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Arlington HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call73%
  2. Patrol support18%
  3. Training and testing9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 20261:10 pmRadio call15 minbe56c468
Fri 2 Jan 20262:26 pmPatrol support22 mineb4f0911
Fri 2 Jan 20262:38 pmPatrol support16 min41ee137f
Fri 2 Jan 20263:07 pmRadio call14 min63516cd4
Tue 6 Jan 20262:03 pmRadio call11 min5faf68b7
Tue 6 Jan 20263:34 pmRadio call18 min06c9eed5
Tue 6 Jan 20264:24 pmRadio call8 min4a96db21
Fri 16 Jan 20261:41 pmRadio call19 minc6ab2c68
Wed 21 Jan 20263:32 pmTraining and testing10 min8047e66e
Wed 21 Jan 20264:47 pmRadio call16 min8b6d2199
Fri 23 Jan 202612:19 pmRadio call19 minc40ef0bd

All 11 flights in January 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Arlington Heights" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Los Angeles DataLA (LA Times Neighborhood Boundaries), licence "CC-BY-4.0".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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