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Santa Ana, California · one day

Friday 10 July 2026

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

30

drone flights over Santa Ana that day.

12:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:09 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Ana police drones flew 30 times on Friday 10 July 2026, the first at 12:03 am and the last at 11:09 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Not stated20%
  3. Training and testing20%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:03 amNot stated3 min80f7a7d9
12:54 amCall for service14 min9f5cb887
1:04 amNot stated19 min83a7bbfc
2:03 amCall for service21 min663889ca
2:11 amNot stated20 min62ed44fe
2:39 amNot stated55 s32976029
12:23 pmCall for service12 min59cfb65f
1:06 pmCall for service18 min32468ceb
1:06 pmCall for service19 mind2639885
1:52 pmTraining and testing2 min79c25e06
1:56 pmCall for service21 min626bb1a0
2:10 pmTraining and testing2 minaf801708
2:18 pmCall for service17 min0e979ec8
2:42 pmCall for service16 minfc2c5a9e
2:59 pmCall for service9 min23a319d3
3:38 pmCall for service6 minb9d74b82
3:57 pmNot stated6 min8882ecaf
4:20 pmNot stated4 minb67f18d3
4:29 pmCall for service6 minb6b350ce
4:37 pmCall for service5 minf12b973f
4:56 pmCall for service4 min4207d81e
5:05 pmCall for service6 minc42f586b
6:19 pmCall for service21 min03cc4c88
7:29 pmTraining and testing3 min5d098074
8:20 pmCall for service11 minfd0bdb53
9:37 pmTraining and testing4 minab1e299c
9:49 pmTraining and testing2 minec83a989
10:15 pmTraining and testing47 scef8cc3f
10:34 pmCall for service3 min89e61855
11:09 pmCall for service17 min68cd9d05

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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