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Los Angeles, California

West Hills, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

16

drone flights crossed West Hills.

16

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Hills 16 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

16 of the 16 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.
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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call88%
  2. Patrol support12%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20262:32 pmRadio call14 min3cdf20ee
Sat 2 May 20268:37 pmRadio call12 min20afe149
Mon 4 May 20265:45 pmRadio call14 min2831887c
Mon 4 May 20266:40 pmPatrol support15 min99d76a97
Wed 6 May 20267:37 pmRadio call12 min1ae7799b
Thu 7 May 20262:04 pmRadio call13 minb2ec40b2
Thu 7 May 20265:14 pmRadio call12 min91c1b23a
Fri 8 May 20265:09 pmRadio call10 min92398dc5
Tue 12 May 202612:24 pmRadio call8 min17fdce9b
Tue 12 May 202612:48 pmRadio call14 minf9102da7
Thu 14 May 20261:42 pmRadio call10 mina4124423
Thu 14 May 20267:13 pmRadio call10 min9f1e227f
Thu 21 May 20262:01 pmRadio call18 min09e1055f
Sun 24 May 20266:23 pmPatrol support16 minfb9fc2b8
Mon 25 May 20268:29 pmRadio call12 min0738a506
Sun 31 May 20268:10 pmRadio call9 min5befed44

All 16 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. "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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