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Bella Vista

A neighborhood page. 152 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

152

drone flights crossed Bella Vista.

35

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Bella Vista 152 times between 24 June 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

35 of the 35 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Bella VistaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

29 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

24% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Bella Vista, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jun 2026: 1 flights. 1
  2. Jul 2026: 37 flights. 37
  3. Aug 2026: 39 flights. 39
  4. Sep 2026: 40 flights. 40
  5. Oct 2026: 35 flights. 35
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 152 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Training and testing14%
  3. Not stated3%
  4. Other1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:30 amCall for service11 min68f662ab
Thu 1 Oct 20267:24 pmTraining and testing18 min268bdd6d
Thu 1 Oct 20269:49 pmTraining and testing17 minc4b40aea
Fri 2 Oct 202611:54 amCall for service16 minb7c6041d
Fri 2 Oct 202611:28 pmCall for service23 minb42f3957
Sat 3 Oct 202611:53 amCall for service5 min338e05e4
Sat 3 Oct 20262:58 pmCall for service12 minf3929462
Sat 3 Oct 20267:09 pmCall for service5 min40b88a19
Sun 4 Oct 20262:05 pmCall for service12 min2f2fdaa5
Sun 4 Oct 20266:31 pmCall for service23 mincc86d543
Thu 8 Oct 20266:55 amCall for service8 minf46a84c8
Thu 8 Oct 20269:20 amCall for service11 min798e1b8d
Fri 9 Oct 20266:59 amCall for service11 min185d4d99
Fri 9 Oct 20262:27 pmCall for service21 mine6504613
Sat 10 Oct 20261:17 pmTraining and testing22 min0e452d84
Sat 10 Oct 20262:36 pmCall for service14 mindea90635
Sat 10 Oct 20263:18 pmCall for service11 min5d8155b4
Sun 11 Oct 20261:25 pmCall for service7 min18253f31
Tue 13 Oct 20268:03 pmCall for service20 minab7ed3d9
Wed 14 Oct 202610:18 amCall for service7 min9be47309
Thu 15 Oct 20269:49 pmOther22 mindb8e3dcd
Fri 16 Oct 20262:46 pmCall for service10 min2718f76c
Sat 17 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service14 minb7ce67fc
Sun 18 Oct 20263:52 amCall for service19 mincd1f1585
Wed 21 Oct 20266:55 pmCall for service6 min34d5f2a3
Thu 22 Oct 20269:07 amCall for service10 min67322fe5
Fri 23 Oct 20264:06 pmCall for service9 min493f502d
Fri 23 Oct 20264:16 pmCall for service15 minf9f26fe4
Fri 23 Oct 20264:33 pmCall for service14 minfbe58d7d
Sat 24 Oct 20263:33 pmCall for service8 mind5d42ef7
Sun 25 Oct 20264:15 pmCall for service6 mind258a69b
Mon 26 Oct 20262:21 pmTraining and testing3 min22fe9b48
Mon 26 Oct 20262:25 pmCall for service7 min6f7b3466
Wed 28 Oct 20269:50 pmCall for service5 minae234171
Thu 29 Oct 20266:28 amCall for service10 min56eb1eda

All 35 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Bella Vista" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Santa Ana (Neighborhood Associations), licence "PDDL-1.0".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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