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Los Angeles, California

Wilmington, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 8 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

8

drone flights crossed Wilmington.

8

of them in January 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wilmington 8 times between 3 January 2026 and 8 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 8 January 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
WilmingtonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

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 call62%
  2. Training and testing38%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 3 Jan 202611:01 amTraining and testing4 mindfd2cbff
Sat 3 Jan 202611:10 amTraining and testing5 mindfdbc2db
Sat 3 Jan 202611:21 amRadio call17 mindaff58d0
Sat 3 Jan 20261:36 pmTraining and testing14 mind0ea08b6
Sat 3 Jan 20262:09 pmRadio call22 min8c9dfb34
Sat 3 Jan 20262:22 pmRadio call39 sacbbfb7e
Thu 8 Jan 20264:10 pmRadio call57 sc796d261
Thu 8 Jan 20264:11 pmRadio call14 min117f66ac

All 8 flights in January 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. "Wilmington" 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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