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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 39 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

39

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

39

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 39 times between 1 October 2026 and 30 October 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

39 of the 39 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

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

13% 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 39 flights that crossed this area.

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Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20263:13 pmRadio call9 min5104bc43
Sun 4 Oct 20266:44 pmRadio call9 min1e7de11a
Wed 7 Oct 20262:23 pmRadio call5 minaa6706a8
Wed 7 Oct 20263:51 pmRadio call13 min9d114c9a
Wed 7 Oct 20266:21 pmRadio call4 min64b5a938
Wed 7 Oct 20269:47 pmRadio call9 min93136254
Thu 8 Oct 20265:28 pmRadio call9 min690fc180
Thu 8 Oct 20266:52 pmRadio call17 minfe5879b8
Thu 8 Oct 20267:03 pmRadio call18 mind5053ae3
Sat 10 Oct 20261:41 pmRadio call8 mindabf13d6
Sat 10 Oct 20266:41 pmRadio call7 min15680aad
Sat 10 Oct 20266:56 pmRadio call11 mind1c8c305
Sat 10 Oct 20268:22 pmRadio call10 min7427d470
Sun 11 Oct 20262:24 pmRadio call7 min3fbafb46
Tue 13 Oct 20267:12 pmRadio call15 min51c45d78
Tue 13 Oct 202611:04 pmRadio call12 min090328b0
Thu 15 Oct 20261:39 pmRadio call12 mina59e9a18
Thu 15 Oct 20265:09 pmRadio call15 minea879cb2
Thu 15 Oct 20266:05 pmRadio call7 mine774b3c0
Thu 15 Oct 202610:32 pmRadio call13 min1c98b2df
Fri 16 Oct 20262:46 pmRadio call14 min0cac2250
Tue 20 Oct 20267:46 pmRadio call11 min3eff0c49
Wed 21 Oct 20266:20 pmRadio call15 min90344d24
Thu 22 Oct 20267:22 pmRadio call15 min8a10ad90
Sat 24 Oct 20263:36 pmRadio call12 min20da1128
Sat 24 Oct 20265:42 pmRadio call20 min2e1f9b36
Sat 24 Oct 20267:07 pmRadio call12 min5bcb3463
Sat 24 Oct 202610:59 pmRadio call8 min619251d4
Sun 25 Oct 20266:27 pmRadio call6 mina3987368
Sun 25 Oct 20266:38 pmRadio call11 min30bd2cf9
Mon 26 Oct 20263:35 pmRadio call17 min9d1a246e
Mon 26 Oct 20263:48 pmRadio call20 min2d6d0027
Mon 26 Oct 20263:55 pmRadio call15 minc7c7aba8
Mon 26 Oct 20269:45 pmRadio call4 minaee5b8ac
Tue 27 Oct 20263:39 pmRadio call17 min33797883
Thu 29 Oct 202610:45 pmRadio call12 min9f9d0e99
Fri 30 Oct 20261:41 pmRadio call9 mind9c2973e
Fri 30 Oct 20266:47 pmRadio call14 min00cbee11
Fri 30 Oct 202610:15 pmRadio call17 min2fc13038

All 39 flights in October 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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