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Santa Ana, California

Bella Vista, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 40 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

40

drone flights crossed Bella Vista.

40

of them in September 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Bella Vista 40 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

40 of the 40 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

30% 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service78%
  2. Training and testing22%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20262:17 amCall for service13 min37798057
Thu 3 Sep 20265:02 pmCall for service6 mina70555d5
Fri 4 Sep 20268:46 amCall for service7 min654f28ba
Fri 4 Sep 20269:38 pmCall for service8 min765b65e4
Fri 4 Sep 202611:28 pmCall for service22 min557a535d
Sat 5 Sep 20262:17 amCall for service14 min8744b31c
Sat 5 Sep 20261:06 pmCall for service6 minb976bb9f
Sat 5 Sep 202610:31 pmTraining and testing15 min79ef8e05
Mon 7 Sep 20262:25 amCall for service10 min367352a1
Mon 7 Sep 20268:53 pmCall for service19 minf5205d39
Wed 9 Sep 202610:26 amCall for service11 mine7dcdfbd
Wed 9 Sep 20261:02 pmCall for service6 minfd1125ce
Wed 9 Sep 20268:09 pmCall for service18 min5e79dead
Thu 10 Sep 202611:22 pmTraining and testing4 min9752db56
Fri 11 Sep 20266:33 amCall for service8 min4c128305
Fri 11 Sep 20268:58 pmTraining and testing21 min6f141e77
Fri 11 Sep 202610:03 pmCall for service7 mindcea97ef
Fri 11 Sep 202610:51 pmTraining and testing18 mina122a5df
Fri 11 Sep 202611:34 pmTraining and testing6 minde8587da
Sat 12 Sep 202612:16 amTraining and testing9 min5dcc89be
Sat 12 Sep 202610:19 amCall for service12 min35a56b30
Sun 13 Sep 20265:50 pmCall for service18 minf1e1553a
Tue 15 Sep 202612:37 pmCall for service9 minc575d79f
Fri 18 Sep 20269:03 amCall for service4 min2d7ab7d9
Fri 18 Sep 202611:29 amCall for service8 minbc0c7398
Fri 18 Sep 20269:03 pmTraining and testing5 min92e1a072
Sat 19 Sep 20269:26 pmTraining and testing10 mine66b4276
Sun 20 Sep 202612:03 amCall for service14 min5b68900f
Wed 23 Sep 20263:41 pmCall for service13 mina9fae3e6
Thu 24 Sep 202610:50 pmCall for service7 minfcd76bfd
Fri 25 Sep 202611:00 amCall for service9 min48d65a55
Fri 25 Sep 20269:18 pmTraining and testing21 min86b6b7b7
Sat 26 Sep 20265:35 pmCall for service8 min3ea6d2ba
Sun 27 Sep 20261:19 pmCall for service18 min261c4776
Mon 28 Sep 20264:22 pmCall for service7 min26c16291
Tue 29 Sep 20267:55 amCall for service5 mina0827e84
Wed 30 Sep 202610:24 amCall for service11 min7aafffbf
Wed 30 Sep 20262:26 pmCall for service11 min686ce9c5
Wed 30 Sep 20263:12 pmCall for service11 mind9b48edb
Wed 30 Sep 20267:35 pmCall for service24 minb3b3234b

All 40 flights in September 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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