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Los Angeles, California

Mid-City, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 59 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

59

drone flights crossed Mid-City.

59

of them in May 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mid-City 59 times between 2 May 2026 and 28 May 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 May 2026.

59 of the 59 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

0% 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 59 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call80%
  2. Call for service15%
  3. Training and testing5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 2 May 20262:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s07cbcfcb
Sat 2 May 20263:56 pmRadio call19 min170a08af
Sat 2 May 20264:07 pmRadio call14 min9b5cd1f3
Sat 2 May 20264:19 pmRadio call12 min42b3513a
Sat 2 May 20265:26 pmRadio call20 minaec4d9a4
Sat 2 May 20265:38 pmRadio call16 min13ee5feb
Sat 2 May 20267:13 pmCall for service16 min7c39eb42
Sat 2 May 20267:30 pmCall for service15 minbe2bc87b
Sat 2 May 20267:37 pmCall for service16 min75c371f1
Sat 2 May 20267:49 pmCall for service14 min1f3ee4b1
Sat 2 May 20268:05 pmCall for service10 min713a2d4f
Sat 2 May 20268:05 pmCall for service20 minb4f56f6a
Fri 8 May 20261:36 pmRadio call11 min0e0445b8
Fri 8 May 20262:29 pmRadio call12 minff46ec75
Fri 8 May 20263:07 pmRadio call10 min215022c5
Fri 8 May 20263:39 pmRadio call13 min724d11bb
Fri 8 May 20264:18 pmRadio call12 min5b742903
Fri 8 May 20265:20 pmRadio call10 min6c7e1b99
Fri 8 May 20265:39 pmRadio call11 min9957d1eb
Fri 8 May 20266:26 pmRadio call7 minca3b7551
Fri 8 May 20267:42 pmRadio call12 min36345fa6
Tue 12 May 20261:13 pmRadio call15 min6f11fa0a
Tue 12 May 20262:02 pmTraining and testing3 min65ddf1f1
Tue 12 May 20262:07 pmTraining and testing2 min2123e3a8
Tue 12 May 20262:16 pmRadio call5 min5ac7a0a8
Tue 12 May 20262:50 pmRadio call17 min5d880ecf
Tue 12 May 20263:11 pmRadio call11 mine9b7e4d7
Tue 12 May 20263:37 pmRadio call11 min37eeacc7
Tue 12 May 20264:16 pmRadio call18 min5ba40117
Tue 12 May 20265:12 pmRadio call12 min93b65467
Tue 12 May 20267:33 pmRadio call18 min1c587ca2
Tue 12 May 20267:44 pmRadio call15 mina023f16e
Sat 16 May 20262:21 pmRadio call13 mindc6c95da
Sat 16 May 20262:58 pmRadio call14 mine3c9d7cf
Sat 16 May 20263:07 pmRadio call16 min5dd7c246
Sat 16 May 20264:36 pmCall for service6 min6ce9e01e
Sat 16 May 20265:48 pmCall for service20 minec32f01b
Sat 16 May 20266:01 pmCall for service22 mincfc92507
Tue 19 May 20262:13 pmRadio call10 min663f42f2
Tue 19 May 20263:17 pmRadio call12 min6721e2ca
Tue 19 May 20264:10 pmRadio call11 min7e5fb88b
Tue 19 May 20264:30 pmRadio call8 min9fa497f2
Tue 19 May 20265:08 pmRadio call17 mina537d512
Tue 19 May 20265:19 pmRadio call13 min46ae189d
Tue 19 May 20265:37 pmRadio call10 minb1b44cb3
Tue 19 May 20268:04 pmRadio call10 minc851332b
Tue 19 May 20268:15 pmRadio call14 minf56b8d30
Thu 21 May 20264:31 pmRadio call14 minecacf13e
Thu 21 May 20265:31 pmRadio call8 min7d95ce06
Thu 21 May 20265:44 pmRadio call11 min4187535f
Thu 21 May 20266:53 pmRadio call13 min5c30699d
Thu 21 May 20267:18 pmRadio call10 min8dcbb29a
Sat 23 May 20262:49 pmRadio call15 min61c08e76
Sat 23 May 20263:21 pmRadio call16 mindb163acb
Sat 23 May 20264:43 pmRadio call17 min7504d99b
Thu 28 May 20261:49 pmRadio call17 minc3acd904
Thu 28 May 20262:44 pmRadio call16 min1b662cb9
Thu 28 May 20264:05 pmRadio call15 minc63490bd
Thu 28 May 20265:22 pmRadio call14 min331e2183

All 59 flights in May 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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