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Santa Ana, California

Bella Vista, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 39 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

39

drone flights crossed Bella Vista.

39

of them in August 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Bella Vista 39 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

39 of the 39 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

26% 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 39 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service90%
  2. Training and testing8%
  3. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20261:05 amCall for service15 min91d54b65
Wed 5 Aug 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min4f0b9a74
Wed 5 Aug 202611:29 pmNot stated8 minb3bf4b17
Thu 6 Aug 20268:30 amCall for service20 minc47b0757
Thu 6 Aug 202611:35 pmTraining and testing17 min914f0f09
Fri 7 Aug 202610:17 amCall for service5 minb39cf372
Fri 7 Aug 202610:29 amCall for service5 min8bab2d9b
Fri 7 Aug 20268:03 pmCall for service12 min37317aeb
Sat 8 Aug 202612:15 amCall for service9 min9ff936bd
Sun 9 Aug 20266:40 amCall for service11 mina6ded827
Sun 9 Aug 202610:43 amCall for service15 min6a6d1533
Sun 9 Aug 202612:16 pmCall for service9 minc4caf01e
Mon 10 Aug 20266:24 amCall for service11 min42753b06
Tue 11 Aug 202610:34 pmCall for service7 min75e0a1d8
Wed 12 Aug 202612:59 pmCall for service17 minb09d972c
Fri 14 Aug 20265:28 pmCall for service6 min046622f8
Sat 15 Aug 20266:42 pmCall for service5 min6c27cf7a
Sun 16 Aug 20261:31 pmCall for service9 mina21896eb
Mon 17 Aug 202612:02 pmCall for service9 min33a803ec
Tue 18 Aug 20261:55 pmCall for service13 min53b14924
Wed 19 Aug 202611:32 amCall for service10 min8d5fbd58
Wed 19 Aug 202610:59 pmCall for service19 min266c62b1
Fri 21 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service22 mine0632fdd
Fri 21 Aug 202611:57 pmCall for service17 min87401f47
Sat 22 Aug 20261:54 amTraining and testing22 minc8291543
Sat 22 Aug 20261:45 pmCall for service11 mine390f4df
Sun 23 Aug 20268:37 amCall for service9 minc45bb56f
Sun 23 Aug 20263:12 pmCall for service11 minf42613a0
Tue 25 Aug 20262:39 amTraining and testing9 min0514c9b8
Tue 25 Aug 20264:32 pmCall for service15 mina326a87b
Tue 25 Aug 20269:56 pmCall for service5 min380430e8
Wed 26 Aug 20268:12 pmCall for service5 minf7eb87c8
Thu 27 Aug 202610:19 amCall for service4 min4fc8a515
Fri 28 Aug 20269:47 pmCall for service16 minf7879ea8
Sat 29 Aug 202611:57 amCall for service5 min76ed4c57
Sat 29 Aug 20261:09 pmCall for service7 minb4f7066f
Mon 31 Aug 20269:44 amCall for service11 minfbf9bdbb
Mon 31 Aug 20267:08 pmCall for service7 minc4f6cd3c
Mon 31 Aug 20269:35 pmCall for service20 min22bd787e

All 39 flights in August 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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