6
drone flights crossed Elysian Valley.
6
of them in September 2026.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Elysian Valley 6 times between 3 September 2026 and 26 September 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 26 September 2026.
1 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 6 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, September 2026
| Date | Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 3 Sep 2026 | 9:38 pm | Radio call | 6 min | 1f39cfd1 |
| Fri 4 Sep 2026 | 5:49 pm | Radio call | 15 min | fc714764 |
| Fri 4 Sep 2026 | 6:26 pm | Radio call | 10 min | 26d041cd |
| Fri 25 Sep 2026 | 2:33 pm | Radio call | 15 min | 86d42c87 |
| Fri 25 Sep 2026 | 2:40 pm | Radio call | 5 min | f722de32 |
| Sat 26 Sep 2026 | 10:26 pm | Radio call | 4 min | a02bcd05 |
All 6 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. "Elysian Valley" 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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