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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, August 2026

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

57

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

57

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

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

57 of the 57 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.

9% 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 call96%
  2. Not stated2%
  3. Patrol support2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20266:20 pmRadio call11 min01b0d12f
Sat 1 Aug 20267:30 pmRadio call16 min913800d0
Sat 1 Aug 20267:39 pmRadio call13 mina2ee5e3f
Sun 2 Aug 20266:51 pmRadio call15 min1d966b08
Sun 2 Aug 20267:01 pmRadio call16 mind7381a04
Mon 3 Aug 20261:40 pmRadio call12 minc6bb2823
Mon 3 Aug 20261:46 pmRadio call11 mindedb658d
Mon 3 Aug 20261:51 pmRadio call4 min9bda3ed0
Mon 3 Aug 20269:17 pmRadio call9 min62ff789e
Tue 4 Aug 20262:13 pmRadio call13 min72efe14d
Tue 4 Aug 20268:00 pmRadio call14 min1d2da151
Fri 7 Aug 20269:14 pmRadio call10 min1ad5aaef
Sat 8 Aug 20268:07 pmRadio call16 minfc15475b
Sun 9 Aug 20262:20 pmRadio call17 min8c9023ad
Mon 10 Aug 20262:08 pmRadio call13 minbaf6a718
Mon 10 Aug 20265:59 pmRadio call13 min4e086c10
Mon 10 Aug 20266:44 pmRadio call16 mine1382b1e
Tue 11 Aug 20262:38 pmRadio call10 min08837f59
Tue 11 Aug 20265:10 pmRadio call11 min46f8a35e
Tue 11 Aug 20268:44 pmRadio call9 min558aeeab
Wed 12 Aug 20268:18 pmRadio call9 minfe293507
Thu 13 Aug 20264:25 pmRadio call15 minaec18823
Thu 13 Aug 20268:28 pmRadio call4 min116436a6
Thu 13 Aug 20268:59 pmRadio call15 min7c1cc41b
Thu 13 Aug 20269:09 pmRadio call17 min5a83e013
Thu 13 Aug 20269:21 pmRadio call13 min24811956
Fri 14 Aug 20262:47 pmRadio call14 min4e3474ae
Fri 14 Aug 202611:00 pmRadio call11 mina54362ea
Sat 15 Aug 202610:44 pmRadio call13 min4e996c2b
Sat 15 Aug 202611:27 pmRadio call19 minc4f192fb
Sun 16 Aug 20267:27 pmRadio call5 min8d18cc9a
Mon 17 Aug 20263:43 pmRadio call13 mind88d2ec2
Mon 17 Aug 20264:41 pmRadio call12 min6ca5604b
Tue 18 Aug 20263:08 pmRadio call7 min34a8aaf3
Thu 20 Aug 20261:38 pmRadio call17 min8654db9e
Thu 20 Aug 20261:50 pmRadio call17 min169281a3
Thu 20 Aug 20262:02 pmRadio call16 min781e623e
Thu 20 Aug 20262:14 pmRadio call16 minfaaca669
Fri 21 Aug 20264:11 pmRadio call13 min455189df
Fri 21 Aug 20266:36 pmRadio call14 minfdcfd9e6
Fri 21 Aug 20266:46 pmRadio call14 min12fd5a96
Fri 21 Aug 20267:38 pmRadio call4 min080bb1e8
Sat 22 Aug 202612:57 pmRadio call10 mine6d41c7a
Sun 23 Aug 202610:28 pmRadio call8 min2152bb24
Mon 24 Aug 20269:00 pmRadio call7 min1d17d4b5
Tue 25 Aug 20264:24 pmRadio call16 min977ad597
Tue 25 Aug 20264:35 pmNot stated13 minb1f28652
Wed 26 Aug 20264:16 pmRadio call11 min19699fbf
Wed 26 Aug 20266:08 pmPatrol support4 min1c0833e4
Thu 27 Aug 20264:20 pmRadio call4 minfa194053
Fri 28 Aug 20264:50 pmRadio call16 min5d7e7cc7
Fri 28 Aug 20265:03 pmRadio call18 min2c51d23d
Sun 30 Aug 202610:51 pmRadio call8 mindac52599
Mon 31 Aug 20261:43 pmRadio call8 minca849fc4
Mon 31 Aug 20262:26 pmRadio call13 min7baee34e
Mon 31 Aug 20266:07 pmRadio call17 minb6452f60
Mon 31 Aug 20269:04 pmRadio call7 mine8bbb88d

All 57 flights in August 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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