drone flights over Santa Ana that day.

7:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:52 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Ana police drones flew 26 times on Wednesday 24 June 2026, the first at 7:59 am and the last at 2:52 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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 testing92%
Call for service4%
Not stated4%

Flights, in order

26 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
7:59 am	Training and testing	5 min	`9e0cb87e`
8:17 am	Call for service	14 min	`745e1279`
8:30 am	Not stated	20 min	`f52d654b`
9:13 am	Training and testing	10 min	`b4058355`
9:18 am	Training and testing	10 min	`5bc94e79`
9:48 am	Training and testing	3 min	`a853848d`
10:02 am	Training and testing	19 min	`59e983a2`
11:16 am	Training and testing	2 min	`11fe53e3`
11:18 am	Training and testing	1 min 12 s	`9c85e96c`
11:26 am	Training and testing	10 min	`76e5b6b4`
11:38 am	Training and testing	10 min	`ab21bc1f`
11:52 am	Training and testing	2 min	`7e7bf074`
11:57 am	Training and testing	1 min 49 s	`f12857d5`
12:04 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`ad53f2da`
12:06 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`3c5c7fe1`
12:09 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`bca94176`
12:10 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`7d4352e1`
12:20 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`f0b66345`
12:48 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`0637033e`
1:00 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`5b9d1a36`
1:01 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`1a37ce0b`
1:56 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`26e3dfa0`
2:15 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`8cb1dad4`
2:23 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`0439e051`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`5c89d6f4`
2:52 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`f9fff9c6`

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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