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Los Angeles, California

Northridge, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 8 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

8

drone flights crossed Northridge.

8

of them in October 2025.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Northridge 8 times between 7 October 2025 and 24 October 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2025.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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.
NorthridgeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call75%
  2. Patrol support12%
  3. Training and testing12%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 7 Oct 20255:03 pmRadio call15 min840f280d
Thu 9 Oct 20253:30 pmRadio call14 mind548c583
Fri 10 Oct 20257:24 pmRadio call16 min469309b9
Sat 11 Oct 20251:18 pmPatrol support13 minc5ac09d3
Fri 17 Oct 20254:12 pmTraining and testing12 minf0d15480
Tue 21 Oct 20255:47 pmRadio call17 min36bc4334
Wed 22 Oct 20255:44 pmRadio call16 minec3700b4
Fri 24 Oct 20258:23 pmRadio call15 min003ad147

All 8 flights in October 2025. 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. "Northridge" 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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