14
drone flights over Santa Ana that day.
2:26 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:57 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Santa Ana police drones flew 14 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 2:26 am and the last at 11:57 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
14 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:26 am | Call for service | 7 min | 3f32c82b |
| 2:39 am | Training and testing | 12 min | 4f5e6629 |
| 4:21 am | Call for service | 22 min | 742dadcb |
| 4:54 am | Not stated | 8 min | e25af736 |
| 5:29 am | Training and testing | 4 min | e0e852ba |
| 5:33 am | Training and testing | 56 s | 194197b1 |
| 5:35 am | Training and testing | 59 s | 7ab95569 |
| 1:52 pm | Training and testing | 13 min | 7d2beb04 |
| 6:58 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 5b4438f9 |
| 8:14 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 0878d5ca |
| 9:28 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 4310948e |
| 9:45 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 16d8afb8 |
| 10:41 pm | Call for service | 22 min | e0632fdd |
| 11:57 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 87401f47 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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