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Los Angeles, California

Elysian Park, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 15 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

15

drone flights crossed Elysian Park.

15

of them in January 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elysian Park 15 times between 2 January 2026 and 27 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 January 2026.

15 of the 15 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
Elysian ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

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 15 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call47%
  2. Training and testing33%
  3. Patrol support20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 20263:49 pmRadio call20 mine30ba26f
Fri 2 Jan 20264:01 pmRadio call20 minbd2d06d2
Sat 3 Jan 202610:53 amPatrol support8 min116e7cf2
Fri 9 Jan 202612:14 pmRadio call18 mina90e730b
Tue 13 Jan 202610:23 amTraining and testing20 min0134e0a6
Tue 13 Jan 202610:46 amTraining and testing9 minbee68f88
Tue 13 Jan 202611:00 amTraining and testing13 min8fc4f105
Tue 13 Jan 202611:17 amTraining and testing16 min491804c3
Tue 13 Jan 202611:43 amTraining and testing1 min 13 sa4126b2f
Wed 14 Jan 20261:12 pmRadio call17 mind40ad275
Fri 16 Jan 20261:35 pmRadio call20 min031bf280
Fri 16 Jan 20262:00 pmRadio call13 min51d4bfc3
Sun 18 Jan 20263:40 pmPatrol support21 mincf8413ad
Sun 18 Jan 20263:48 pmPatrol support20 mina7985af1
Tue 27 Jan 202611:46 amRadio call14 min74955b34

All 15 flights in January 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. "Elysian Park" 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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