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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 65 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

65

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

65

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 65 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

65 of the 65 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

17% 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 65 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call80%
  2. Patrol support17%
  3. Not stated2%
  4. Call for service2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 202612:39 pmRadio call3 min1f4cb300
Thu 3 Sep 20267:12 pmRadio call10 min3c03ce77
Thu 3 Sep 20267:22 pmNot stated8 min1a949370
Thu 3 Sep 20269:47 pmRadio call12 min5efa2bb2
Fri 4 Sep 20264:22 pmPatrol support12 min9e1758a0
Fri 4 Sep 20264:27 pmRadio call15 mine7994765
Fri 4 Sep 20264:35 pmPatrol support15 mine1bb30c2
Fri 4 Sep 20265:19 pmPatrol support14 min94d82a58
Sat 5 Sep 20268:32 amPatrol support14 minf836a01e
Sat 5 Sep 20268:39 amPatrol support15 min65f537c1
Sat 5 Sep 20268:46 amPatrol support5 min6da96cf2
Sat 5 Sep 20269:24 pmRadio call10 min050e1dae
Sat 5 Sep 202610:27 pmRadio call12 mineed5602d
Sat 5 Sep 202610:54 pmRadio call9 min3c9d2016
Sun 6 Sep 20267:27 pmRadio call13 minb5cdf0b7
Sun 6 Sep 20269:53 pmRadio call15 min264adfdc
Mon 7 Sep 20265:49 pmRadio call7 minbc7d9361
Mon 7 Sep 20268:56 pmRadio call12 mind16b01c4
Tue 8 Sep 20263:32 pmRadio call7 minedd4b1cf
Tue 8 Sep 20265:36 pmRadio call13 min856f097b
Tue 8 Sep 20269:53 pmPatrol support12 min8b179014
Wed 9 Sep 20264:18 pmPatrol support11 min14233214
Wed 9 Sep 20264:36 pmPatrol support13 min2aa17ff2
Wed 9 Sep 202610:11 pmRadio call15 minef10e069
Sat 12 Sep 20263:34 pmRadio call11 mind332fbaf
Sat 12 Sep 20263:44 pmRadio call8 min3e194461
Sat 12 Sep 20264:19 pmRadio call12 minb8ec8b91
Sat 12 Sep 20265:21 pmRadio call13 minb742be61
Sat 12 Sep 20267:53 pmRadio call5 min0e38d9c9
Sat 12 Sep 202610:14 pmRadio call14 min50565d85
Sat 12 Sep 202610:23 pmPatrol support4 mince8261a5
Sun 13 Sep 20264:51 pmRadio call17 min39c6f77a
Sun 13 Sep 20265:12 pmRadio call13 min1a48f744
Sun 13 Sep 202610:17 pmRadio call11 minc6c45780
Mon 14 Sep 20264:10 pmRadio call13 minb79d31f5
Mon 14 Sep 20265:02 pmRadio call12 min19f8feac
Wed 16 Sep 20263:52 pmPatrol support14 min0156434d
Fri 18 Sep 20268:48 pmRadio call17 min05ca54ad
Sat 19 Sep 20263:58 pmRadio call9 min564bc410
Sat 19 Sep 20265:24 pmRadio call15 min463671c9
Sat 19 Sep 20265:50 pmRadio call15 min7c00bb99
Sat 19 Sep 20266:26 pmRadio call12 mindab06604
Sun 20 Sep 20264:43 pmRadio call4 mina7bbf8ae
Sun 20 Sep 20264:48 pmRadio call10 minafd948af
Sun 20 Sep 20266:55 pmRadio call8 min69e7926d
Sun 20 Sep 20267:45 pmRadio call12 min75747e3a
Mon 21 Sep 20263:25 pmRadio call10 min42e4a286
Mon 21 Sep 20263:52 pmRadio call14 minccb9329f
Mon 21 Sep 20269:41 pmRadio call11 mind41684bc
Tue 22 Sep 20265:06 pmCall for service4 min2ecd3b61
Tue 22 Sep 20268:21 pmRadio call13 min448d88a8
Tue 22 Sep 202610:27 pmRadio call19 mindb45f132
Thu 24 Sep 20265:33 pmRadio call16 min9f2bcaa2
Thu 24 Sep 20267:16 pmRadio call16 min74a16731
Sat 26 Sep 202610:06 pmRadio call8 minb61dbfb7
Sun 27 Sep 20263:33 pmRadio call12 min45ee8e2c
Sun 27 Sep 20266:50 pmRadio call11 minfe65db6a
Mon 28 Sep 20262:59 pmRadio call18 minbdfdb6ec
Mon 28 Sep 20266:32 pmRadio call17 minf9b6f614
Tue 29 Sep 20269:09 pmRadio call4 mincbab36d7
Tue 29 Sep 202610:02 pmRadio call9 min7cdfaf18
Tue 29 Sep 202610:08 pmRadio call9 min24365288
Tue 29 Sep 202611:10 pmRadio call12 min1c05f18a
Wed 30 Sep 20264:59 pmRadio call9 min8b350175
Wed 30 Sep 20265:44 pmRadio call11 min254778b0

All 65 flights in September 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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