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Santa Ana, California · one day

Saturday 10 October 2026

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

29

drone flights over Santa Ana that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:32 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Santa Ana police drones flew 29 times on Saturday 10 October 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:32 pm PDT, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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 service79%
  2. Not stated10%
  3. Training and testing10%

Flights, in order

29 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
12:06 amNot stated7 mine49b4af0
12:16 amCall for service10 mine22619e0
2:13 amCall for service10 minca449877
3:17 amCall for service8 min1fc2e6f3
3:27 amCall for service11 min6d8714af
3:46 amCall for service4 minaa683bcd
3:52 amCall for service11 minf23d93c3
6:08 amCall for service15 min32dc2d51
7:49 amCall for service12 min6edf4d4b
9:05 amCall for service11 minc786d235
9:52 amCall for service8 min147a6cc1
10:49 amCall for service19 min9836ff9a
11:56 amCall for service11 min18a166bd
12:15 pmCall for service9 min2c9d2c2c
12:29 pmTraining and testing2 min9a53668a
1:09 pmNot stated6 minc63b3424
1:17 pmTraining and testing22 min0e452d84
1:39 pmNot stated19 minc6411e9e
1:59 pmTraining and testing2 min95ad7317
2:04 pmCall for service8 min1393b125
2:21 pmCall for service9 mind9cca935
2:36 pmCall for service14 mindea90635
3:18 pmCall for service11 min5d8155b4
4:14 pmCall for service10 mindbe4236d
6:37 pmCall for service7 minbe691c58
6:49 pmCall for service7 min374818c8
8:34 pmCall for service7 min7d97bef6
9:56 pmCall for service10 min64fefcbf
11:32 pmCall for service5 min504db981

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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