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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 50 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

50

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

50

of them in March 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 50 times between 3 March 2026 and 31 March 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 March 2026.

50 of the 50 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

2% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

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 50 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call96%
  2. Call for service4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 3 Mar 202611:43 amRadio call11 minf7d9ea3b
Wed 4 Mar 20269:02 amRadio call8 mind53e57dc
Fri 6 Mar 20268:46 amRadio call13 min98d689a8
Fri 6 Mar 202610:08 amRadio call16 min1cb55c37
Fri 6 Mar 202610:19 amRadio call19 min57cd6eb9
Fri 6 Mar 202610:34 amRadio call12 min508d9624
Sat 7 Mar 20267:01 amRadio call15 min83d15bab
Sat 7 Mar 20268:24 amRadio call6 min09775b1b
Sat 7 Mar 202611:37 amRadio call13 min7227c92b
Sun 8 Mar 20268:54 amRadio call17 min4953faee
Sun 8 Mar 20269:06 amRadio call7 minad5fb3ca
Sun 8 Mar 20261:43 pmRadio call18 min60287ead
Tue 10 Mar 202611:00 amRadio call14 minea155cc1
Wed 11 Mar 20265:03 pmCall for service11 minb7cb6472
Wed 11 Mar 20266:54 pmRadio call13 min56c70922
Wed 11 Mar 20268:42 pmRadio call13 min6836ce9c
Wed 11 Mar 20269:36 pmRadio call11 min9905db19
Wed 11 Mar 202610:03 pmRadio call7 min302dd26e
Thu 12 Mar 20262:07 pmRadio call17 mind49933cc
Thu 12 Mar 20263:20 pmRadio call16 min7b46b546
Thu 12 Mar 20267:49 pmRadio call15 min0c6a5573
Thu 12 Mar 20267:54 pmRadio call10 min75d8583e
Fri 13 Mar 20264:36 pmRadio call14 mina0cef12c
Fri 13 Mar 20264:56 pmRadio call15 mindd182ded
Fri 13 Mar 20266:14 pmRadio call7 min773da503
Fri 13 Mar 20266:58 pmRadio call14 min10c6f6ea
Fri 13 Mar 20267:05 pmRadio call7 min467d611f
Sat 14 Mar 202612:21 pmRadio call13 min20a59c14
Sat 14 Mar 20264:15 pmRadio call15 min319864f1
Sun 15 Mar 20264:26 pmRadio call12 minca4b7235
Fri 20 Mar 202612:07 pmRadio call12 minf0f18d0f
Fri 20 Mar 20262:00 pmRadio call7 min1c9b5330
Fri 20 Mar 20264:55 pmRadio call12 mincb5e9f21
Sat 21 Mar 20261:05 pmRadio call13 min3a083f46
Sat 21 Mar 20266:07 pmRadio call9 min093d18f4
Tue 24 Mar 20262:06 pmRadio call13 minbd88f136
Tue 24 Mar 20263:59 pmRadio call20 min8abb2314
Tue 24 Mar 20264:17 pmRadio call10 min162c7ee9
Tue 24 Mar 20265:30 pmRadio call21 min844da64a
Tue 24 Mar 20265:49 pmRadio call10 minfeebdfc7
Thu 26 Mar 20263:03 pmRadio call12 min7c88e360
Thu 26 Mar 20268:35 pmRadio call6 min7f106269
Fri 27 Mar 202612:21 pmRadio call7 minbae627e5
Fri 27 Mar 20267:11 pmRadio call9 mind6bbe7b8
Tue 31 Mar 20264:25 pmRadio call13 min275f02d1
Tue 31 Mar 20264:33 pmRadio call11 minc297e16d
Tue 31 Mar 20266:42 pmRadio call12 min872105a7
Tue 31 Mar 20267:09 pmRadio call11 min05782a3b
Tue 31 Mar 20267:21 pmRadio call8 minc87a943e
Tue 31 Mar 20268:56 pmCall for service5 minf9b4a5df

All 50 flights in March 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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