drone flights over Santa Ana that day.

7:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:40 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Ana police drones flew 21 times on Thursday 18 June 2026, the first at 7:09 am and the last at 3:40 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing95%
Call for service5%

Flights, in order

21 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
7:09 am	Training and testing	11 min	`638a6b0d`
9:06 am	Training and testing	1 min 24 s	`d22a43a6`
9:06 am	Training and testing	9 min	`66334047`
9:24 am	Training and testing	7 min	`3403d3ea`
10:11 am	Training and testing	17 min	`f6b51a50`
10:17 am	Training and testing	22 min	`96da0236`
10:43 am	Training and testing	3 min	`e8293ead`
10:55 am	Training and testing	10 min	`e58359ae`
11:17 am	Training and testing	8 min	`f3e5cf33`
11:22 am	Training and testing	15 min	`b939947e`
11:45 am	Training and testing	6 min	`983242f0`
11:48 am	Training and testing	5 min	`c39b004c`
12:18 pm	Training and testing	1 min 29 s	`34474f18`
12:32 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`7e16510b`
1:01 pm	Training and testing	35 s	`83e57c95`
1:06 pm	Training and testing	1 min 03 s	`d4a366d9`
1:13 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`0c8bf6db`
1:36 pm	Training and testing	1 min 07 s	`8b43fd30`
1:38 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`2856abd2`
1:45 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`d8c41003`
3:40 pm	Call for service	23 min	`40693fc3`

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.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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