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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 31 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

31

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

31

of them in February 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 31 times between 3 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
ChinatownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

7 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call97%
  2. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 3 Feb 20267:48 amRadio call11 mindd8b2e72
Tue 3 Feb 20261:11 pmRadio call16 min2a502de2
Fri 6 Feb 202612:20 pmRadio call17 min07aeaa42
Sat 7 Feb 202611:46 amRadio call16 minb9905748
Sat 7 Feb 202611:52 amRadio call17 mindc833016
Tue 10 Feb 20261:37 pmRadio call10 min3c112903
Thu 12 Feb 202611:31 amRadio call10 min02487fe1
Thu 12 Feb 202611:47 amRadio call18 min427283e9
Thu 12 Feb 202612:21 pmRadio call16 minbf289db7
Thu 12 Feb 20263:46 pmRadio call9 min9725203a
Sat 14 Feb 20263:22 pmRadio call14 min560cec67
Tue 17 Feb 202611:33 amRadio call10 min65c41991
Wed 18 Feb 202610:48 amRadio call13 min9a3b2deb
Wed 18 Feb 20264:43 pmRadio call15 min537093b1
Wed 18 Feb 20267:11 pmRadio call21 min1c9548e6
Wed 18 Feb 20267:26 pmRadio call13 min10fcacc9
Thu 19 Feb 20265:08 pmRadio call12 min4dcd8e98
Sat 21 Feb 20264:14 pmRadio call6 min31087004
Tue 24 Feb 202611:45 amRadio call15 mine494a8c8
Tue 24 Feb 202612:11 pmPatrol support10 min42716cce
Tue 24 Feb 202612:39 pmRadio call12 min5db4c5e1
Tue 24 Feb 20266:10 pmRadio call14 min8e38455a
Tue 24 Feb 20266:16 pmRadio call8 minf528ef58
Thu 26 Feb 20263:23 pmRadio call13 min9a6ef02a
Thu 26 Feb 20263:39 pmRadio call12 min8bbcc80b
Thu 26 Feb 20263:53 pmRadio call11 min8a7aa554
Fri 27 Feb 20261:35 pmRadio call11 min7b6e25c9
Fri 27 Feb 20262:54 pmRadio call12 min38ca4294
Fri 27 Feb 20266:25 pmRadio call14 min87efdded
Sat 28 Feb 202612:47 pmRadio call15 min0a213857
Sat 28 Feb 20265:47 pmRadio call9 min2b018be7

All 31 flights in February 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. "Chinatown" 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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