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Los Angeles, California

Northridge, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 19 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

19

drone flights crossed Northridge.

19

of them in April 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Northridge 19 times between 6 April 2026 and 24 April 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 April 2026.

19 of the 19 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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.
NorthridgeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

11% 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 19 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call47%
  2. Patrol support47%
  3. Call for service5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 6 Apr 20261:48 pmRadio call14 minef0be5e7
Mon 6 Apr 20263:24 pmRadio call12 min68f02b6d
Mon 6 Apr 20263:49 pmRadio call15 mind565929d
Fri 17 Apr 20261:24 pmRadio call12 min6b02a027
Fri 17 Apr 20269:55 pmPatrol support17 min8c75ec78
Fri 17 Apr 20269:57 pmPatrol support20 min40ba4f93
Fri 17 Apr 202610:13 pmPatrol support4 minc39fc2b7
Fri 17 Apr 202610:33 pmPatrol support11 min801b2aed
Sun 19 Apr 20264:49 pmRadio call13 min91b4865b
Tue 21 Apr 20265:35 pmPatrol support18 min114a01e0
Tue 21 Apr 20265:51 pmCall for service17 min65560d72
Tue 21 Apr 20266:02 pmPatrol support20 min1e1287e8
Tue 21 Apr 20266:15 pmRadio call18 min91d696fc
Tue 21 Apr 20266:24 pmPatrol support20 min92e4c0d6
Tue 21 Apr 20266:39 pmRadio call17 minb86f6f85
Tue 21 Apr 20266:51 pmPatrol support21 minf9fcd849
Tue 21 Apr 20267:07 pmRadio call21 min33933785
Tue 21 Apr 20267:21 pmPatrol support14 min9bf39b39
Fri 24 Apr 20268:36 pmRadio call15 minf26b50c6

All 19 flights in April 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. "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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