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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 57 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

57

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

57

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 57 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

57 of the 57 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

0% 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 57 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call91%
  2. Patrol support5%
  3. Call for service4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 202612:58 pmRadio call16 min59dc030d
Fri 1 May 20261:09 pmRadio call12 min9875c697
Sat 2 May 20263:37 pmRadio call11 minb76255d5
Sat 2 May 20265:32 pmRadio call7 mind578e623
Sat 2 May 20265:51 pmRadio call16 minb370f2a1
Sat 2 May 20266:00 pmRadio call16 min70701f5f
Sat 2 May 20266:09 pmRadio call7 min2f560f30
Sun 3 May 20262:46 pmRadio call14 min3bc5cbfb
Sun 3 May 20264:54 pmRadio call12 min476a77ae
Sun 3 May 20269:05 pmRadio call11 mine9c05f27
Mon 4 May 202612:33 pmRadio call14 minf8671483
Tue 5 May 20264:20 pmRadio call13 min6cf01276
Tue 5 May 20268:30 pmRadio call18 mind4254761
Tue 5 May 20268:54 pmRadio call21 min6ef5535a
Wed 6 May 20262:06 pmRadio call11 minc99edbc0
Wed 6 May 20265:47 pmRadio call16 minb8fb9d16
Thu 7 May 20263:26 pmRadio call15 min35f2ef07
Thu 7 May 20263:35 pmRadio call3 minb9f59e84
Thu 7 May 20266:01 pmCall for service8 min33eee28e
Thu 7 May 20266:22 pmRadio call6 min1653d244
Thu 7 May 20267:52 pmRadio call6 min49312add
Fri 8 May 202612:44 pmRadio call7 min185bdde7
Fri 8 May 20261:14 pmRadio call14 min70b8b491
Fri 8 May 20263:06 pmRadio call14 mina6bfac74
Fri 8 May 20263:24 pmRadio call16 min02a7d61d
Sun 10 May 20265:50 pmRadio call6 min70f5187f
Sun 10 May 20266:26 pmRadio call14 min21fe4b19
Tue 12 May 20266:23 pmRadio call5 min90e67427
Wed 13 May 20265:27 pmRadio call14 min10afc61c
Wed 13 May 20267:02 pmRadio call9 mincaa7be7a
Wed 13 May 20267:45 pmRadio call11 min525dbd92
Wed 13 May 20268:34 pmRadio call19 min36eafb41
Thu 14 May 20262:06 pmRadio call13 min6954d0a3
Thu 14 May 20262:36 pmRadio call11 min9a1d8220
Sat 16 May 20264:13 pmRadio call12 min68a27989
Sun 17 May 20261:22 pmPatrol support13 min1d2b753a
Sun 17 May 20261:30 pmPatrol support15 min7f24db38
Sun 17 May 20261:55 pmRadio call8 min3c7b924b
Mon 18 May 20261:51 pmRadio call8 min8c5bfcb2
Wed 20 May 20265:50 pmRadio call10 min1ed99ea7
Thu 21 May 20265:40 pmPatrol support11 min38b4997a
Thu 21 May 20266:25 pmRadio call11 min19723559
Sun 24 May 202612:54 pmRadio call8 min39494e67
Sun 24 May 20261:53 pmRadio call14 min43e8d23c
Sun 24 May 20262:42 pmRadio call13 min52e280cb
Sun 24 May 20264:50 pmRadio call18 min42327c07
Tue 26 May 20261:06 pmRadio call9 min7fcd3ef2
Tue 26 May 20262:52 pmRadio call18 min086062a8
Tue 26 May 20264:33 pmRadio call9 minb5639c8d
Tue 26 May 20266:00 pmRadio call17 min9fc5b60d
Wed 27 May 202612:47 pmRadio call5 minbb1d44ab
Thu 28 May 20266:19 pmRadio call13 min4c2dbb5e
Thu 28 May 20266:57 pmRadio call17 min813902b6
Fri 29 May 20261:50 pmRadio call12 minfb7cf310
Sun 31 May 202612:42 pmRadio call8 min6115a7d2
Sun 31 May 20262:14 pmRadio call13 mina8db610e
Sun 31 May 20262:52 pmCall for service16 mina7bb1e52

All 57 flights in May 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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