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Los Angeles, California

West Hills, August 2025

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2025.

11

drone flights crossed West Hills.

11

of them in August 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Hills 11 times between 14 August 2025 and 23 August 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 August 2025.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
West HillsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call82%
  2. Training and testing9%
  3. Patrol support9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 14 Aug 20251:24 pmRadio call20 min8b3eced3
Tue 19 Aug 20255:51 pmRadio call16 min06396913
Wed 20 Aug 202512:22 pmTraining and testing24 min24e8bcb3
Wed 20 Aug 202512:50 pmRadio call15 min9aa957c8
Wed 20 Aug 20252:59 pmRadio call21 minfce3e9c2
Thu 21 Aug 202510:32 amRadio call15 min2016c86b
Thu 21 Aug 20253:10 pmRadio call20 min2f4d5272
Thu 21 Aug 20253:24 pmRadio call8 min8b8dab99
Fri 22 Aug 20251:49 pmPatrol support17 min835f7ba5
Fri 22 Aug 20253:57 pmRadio call9 min6d5d4574
Sat 23 Aug 20251:21 pmRadio call15 min4ffc9eb7

All 11 flights in August 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. "West Hills" 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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