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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 66 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

66

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

66

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 66 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

66 of the 66 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

3% 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 66 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call98%
  2. Patrol support2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 20264:29 pmRadio call12 mine16c4883
Wed 1 Apr 20265:13 pmRadio call0 s603496f8
Wed 1 Apr 20268:34 pmRadio call14 min8bd10466
Wed 1 Apr 20269:13 pmRadio call14 min497003b0
Thu 2 Apr 202612:39 pmRadio call13 minf2148025
Thu 2 Apr 20263:12 pmRadio call11 mina79c458c
Thu 2 Apr 20264:49 pmRadio call12 min498d8213
Thu 2 Apr 20266:28 pmRadio call20 min6e06a86f
Fri 3 Apr 20264:09 pmRadio call10 min831bba31
Fri 3 Apr 20268:17 pmRadio call13 minf8a544e7
Sat 4 Apr 20261:20 pmRadio call10 min4b6e9f00
Mon 6 Apr 20261:12 pmPatrol support9 min01ce148a
Tue 7 Apr 20265:05 pmRadio call19 min048a3e8b
Tue 7 Apr 20265:47 pmRadio call17 minf9fed8df
Tue 7 Apr 20267:03 pmRadio call15 min8847b8ef
Tue 7 Apr 20267:41 pmRadio call11 min156d0829
Wed 8 Apr 20267:47 pmRadio call17 mind617c370
Thu 9 Apr 20263:16 pmRadio call9 min5c7b6865
Thu 9 Apr 20263:52 pmRadio call9 min73ed1b7e
Sat 11 Apr 20261:20 pmRadio call10 min7e65ff87
Sat 11 Apr 20268:11 pmRadio call14 min2d052809
Sun 12 Apr 20265:41 pmRadio call12 minb7055bc4
Mon 13 Apr 20262:58 pmRadio call13 min8084b1f8
Mon 13 Apr 20263:05 pmRadio call13 min35ccb82f
Mon 13 Apr 20264:25 pmRadio call12 min203e9fe8
Wed 15 Apr 20261:30 pmRadio call17 min0b260171
Wed 15 Apr 20263:02 pmRadio call16 mina5b85309
Wed 15 Apr 20265:30 pmRadio call12 min3b74cf96
Wed 15 Apr 20267:00 pmRadio call11 min5dd67b6b
Thu 16 Apr 20262:04 pmRadio call10 min9c2aa3da
Thu 16 Apr 20265:45 pmRadio call10 min5de32a63
Thu 16 Apr 20266:26 pmRadio call13 min8a365463
Thu 16 Apr 20266:29 pmRadio call11 min6114e214
Fri 17 Apr 20262:00 pmRadio call8 min805c818a
Fri 17 Apr 202610:07 pmRadio call10 minfd7a7f45
Fri 17 Apr 202610:57 pmRadio call12 min747ac28f
Sat 18 Apr 20262:36 pmRadio call10 min594a1138
Sun 19 Apr 20261:14 pmRadio call16 minc5702e8f
Sun 19 Apr 20261:27 pmRadio call5 minb1b62e04
Sun 19 Apr 20263:01 pmRadio call9 min3ff5e084
Sun 19 Apr 20263:17 pmRadio call16 min80320a25
Sun 19 Apr 20264:23 pmRadio call14 minfd3df004
Mon 20 Apr 20267:59 pmRadio call18 min293af00c
Tue 21 Apr 20264:49 pmRadio call9 min6199bef4
Wed 22 Apr 20266:46 pmRadio call9 min5ffabdca
Wed 22 Apr 20267:45 pmRadio call10 min696495a0
Wed 22 Apr 20268:28 pmRadio call10 min55aed7e2
Thu 23 Apr 20261:00 pmRadio call13 mindde076ae
Thu 23 Apr 20265:58 pmRadio call16 min9fd7bece
Fri 24 Apr 20262:45 pmRadio call19 min1b91c903
Fri 24 Apr 20267:29 pmRadio call16 min6f7f58ea
Fri 24 Apr 20269:21 pmRadio call13 min6052a840
Sun 26 Apr 20263:33 pmRadio call13 min254ac9a9
Sun 26 Apr 20269:16 pmRadio call19 min9f4a6075
Sun 26 Apr 20269:29 pmRadio call16 min85230144
Tue 28 Apr 20263:47 pmRadio call16 min649dcc26
Tue 28 Apr 20264:20 pmRadio call16 min7efeb397
Tue 28 Apr 20267:22 pmRadio call16 min47bca159
Wed 29 Apr 20262:16 pmRadio call7 mincd17a4b2
Wed 29 Apr 20263:55 pmRadio call6 minc9655022
Wed 29 Apr 20266:26 pmRadio call12 minebed5d3d
Wed 29 Apr 20266:35 pmRadio call13 minfb98322d
Wed 29 Apr 20267:17 pmRadio call12 minca0f5919
Thu 30 Apr 20262:03 pmRadio call12 mince6f4854
Thu 30 Apr 20262:28 pmRadio call14 min57e362cc
Thu 30 Apr 20263:13 pmRadio call14 min3d09a9d8

All 66 flights in April 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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