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Santa Ana, California · one day

Friday 26 June 2026

17 drone flights from Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

17

drone flights over Santa Ana that day.

8:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:42 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Ana police drones flew 17 times on Friday 26 June 2026, the first at 8:05 am and the last at 3:42 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing53%
  2. Call for service47%

Flights, in order

17 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:05 amCall for service15 minbef53b5f
9:50 amCall for service9 mindd4b9346
9:52 amTraining and testing8 minc757d048
10:24 amTraining and testing24 min39c7ecc5
11:09 amTraining and testing10 minf9702d6f
11:19 amCall for service18 min8b88a864
11:24 amTraining and testing10 mine22390de
1:02 pmTraining and testing4 min38a8d44d
1:23 pmCall for service7 minb585b018
1:35 pmCall for service6 min73755616
2:21 pmTraining and testing5 mina51affea
2:30 pmCall for service7 min0397ddd0
2:53 pmTraining and testing9 minae2a5c8a
2:54 pmCall for service12 minf163d798
3:04 pmTraining and testing12 min95fcc037
3:27 pmCall for service10 minfda662a0
3:42 pmTraining and testing4 min496b7335

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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