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Los Angeles, California

Mid-City, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Mid-City.

17

of them in March 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mid-City 17 times between 12 March 2026 and 25 March 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 March 2026.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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.
Mid-CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

6% 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 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call94%
  2. Training and testing6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 12 Mar 202612:16 pmTraining and testing1 min 30 s559d899b
Thu 12 Mar 202612:21 pmRadio call16 min52c97ba9
Thu 12 Mar 20262:09 pmRadio call19 min4ba0f021
Thu 12 Mar 20266:25 pmRadio call14 min2313367d
Thu 12 Mar 20266:50 pmRadio call19 min31ffa6b4
Tue 17 Mar 202612:49 pmRadio call18 minfee17369
Tue 17 Mar 202612:57 pmRadio call12 min37a059aa
Wed 18 Mar 202612:23 pmRadio call13 min6163a237
Wed 18 Mar 202612:45 pmRadio call19 minde9205cd
Wed 18 Mar 20261:57 pmRadio call14 minb0a6b456
Wed 18 Mar 20263:55 pmRadio call16 min0aefc6e6
Sun 22 Mar 202611:30 pmRadio call12 minfcc30ad0
Wed 25 Mar 20263:52 pmRadio call10 minf69acb92
Wed 25 Mar 20264:14 pmRadio call13 min6df88064
Wed 25 Mar 20264:38 pmRadio call16 minc90a27b5
Wed 25 Mar 20265:05 pmRadio call15 min908eb54b
Wed 25 Mar 20266:33 pmRadio call13 min87bf6c35

All 17 flights in March 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. "Mid-City" 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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