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Centennial Park

A neighborhood page. 277 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

277

drone flights crossed Centennial Park.

55

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Centennial Park 277 times between 18 June 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

55 of the 55 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.
Centennial ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

18% 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 Centennial Park, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 17
  2. 84
  3. 72
  4. 49
  5. 55
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 277 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Training and testing6%
  3. Not stated4%
  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 20264:15 amCall for service8 min12e35c3b
Fri 2 Oct 20266:08 amCall for service4 minf9d6b2b3
Sat 3 Oct 20261:50 pmCall for service11 mindc15fd73
Sat 3 Oct 20262:32 pmCall for service12 min90925915
Sat 3 Oct 20262:58 pmCall for service12 minf3929462
Sat 3 Oct 20268:46 pmCall for service5 minb54a20ea
Sun 4 Oct 202612:31 pmCall for service5 min159646b7
Sun 4 Oct 20262:05 pmCall for service12 min2f2fdaa5
Sun 4 Oct 20269:47 pmCall for service11 min77f17b03
Mon 5 Oct 202612:18 pmCall for service4 min052d6afa
Mon 5 Oct 20261:55 pmCall for service8 min5d8a7144
Mon 5 Oct 202610:22 pmCall for service7 mine4d92776
Mon 5 Oct 202611:58 pmCall for service9 minfe027e65
Tue 6 Oct 20268:49 amCall for service6 min4288621b
Tue 6 Oct 20262:54 pmCall for service6 min40df24ca
Tue 6 Oct 20266:01 pmCall for service7 min3b3f4ad6
Tue 6 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service5 min84c9c7a2
Wed 7 Oct 20267:03 amCall for service15 min69e03174
Thu 8 Oct 20268:47 amCall for service7 min934119d6
Thu 8 Oct 20263:15 pmCall for service15 min57df2965
Fri 9 Oct 202611:59 pmCall for service6 minc3613bb2
Sun 11 Oct 20269:13 amCall for service5 min1ec61e06
Sun 11 Oct 202611:07 amCall for service9 min7c9402ff
Sun 11 Oct 20269:29 pmCall for service16 min97d4f46f
Mon 12 Oct 20261:03 pmCall for service13 mine9c4044e
Tue 13 Oct 20262:31 amCall for service12 min86befeeb
Wed 14 Oct 20267:15 amCall for service6 min3e920d98
Wed 14 Oct 202610:35 amCall for service12 min5183077c
Thu 15 Oct 202611:25 amCall for service11 min1cc395f1
Thu 15 Oct 202612:46 pmCall for service11 min49b53808
Thu 15 Oct 20261:24 pmCall for service13 min90cd1469
Thu 15 Oct 202610:12 pmOther7 min8a4f58bd
Fri 16 Oct 20266:02 amCall for service8 minbbc77aec
Fri 16 Oct 202610:13 pmCall for service8 min9ee2ebe3
Sat 17 Oct 202612:29 pmCall for service15 min8c4b4fe1
Sat 17 Oct 20262:50 pmCall for service8 min25d44099
Sun 18 Oct 20263:04 amCall for service19 mind50672db
Tue 20 Oct 202611:46 amCall for service5 min227394b7
Tue 20 Oct 20266:28 pmCall for service11 min43ca6caa
Wed 21 Oct 20261:35 amCall for service3 min3e0733e9
Wed 21 Oct 202612:50 pmCall for service4 min285928cd
Wed 21 Oct 20268:00 pmCall for service11 minfb3f58e0
Thu 22 Oct 20262:57 pmCall for service12 min6529b581
Thu 22 Oct 20265:42 pmCall for service3 min6b28fbb2
Sat 24 Oct 20265:17 pmCall for service3 min900280ec
Sat 24 Oct 202610:08 pmCall for service15 minfd42c3f1
Sun 25 Oct 20263:53 pmCall for service14 minfe1e43f8
Mon 26 Oct 20267:50 amCall for service12 min7ba705ea
Mon 26 Oct 20268:31 amCall for service7 min9d6c9031
Mon 26 Oct 20268:54 amCall for service10 minc285b279
Mon 26 Oct 202612:05 pmCall for service13 min139a3793
Mon 26 Oct 20262:01 pmCall for service18 mind080dbe1
Tue 27 Oct 20263:52 pmCall for service7 mind9b6c8ca
Wed 28 Oct 202612:13 pmCall for service5 mind5f609fe
Thu 29 Oct 20268:52 amCall for service7 minb9a9c3a2

All 55 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • Boundary. "Centennial Park" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Santa Ana (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "PDDL-1.0", in the place layer file for Santa Ana.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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