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Santa Ana, California

Central City, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 71 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

71

drone flights crossed Central City.

71

of them in July 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central City 71 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

71 of the 71 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.
Central CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

14 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 71 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service73%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Training and testing11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 202612:03 amTraining and testing14 min47fac44b
Wed 1 Jul 202612:47 amNot stated17 min50139a29
Wed 1 Jul 20261:53 pmCall for service5 min96ec9b87
Wed 1 Jul 202611:38 pmNot stated16 minb4b23242
Thu 2 Jul 20261:19 amNot stated19 min09235666
Thu 2 Jul 20261:39 amNot stated21 minb16dc895
Thu 2 Jul 202610:17 amCall for service11 min8d0256a5
Thu 2 Jul 202610:15 pmCall for service8 min0fe4882e
Fri 3 Jul 202612:58 amNot stated16 mina583a7f8
Fri 3 Jul 20263:01 pmCall for service17 min1aaebc23
Fri 3 Jul 20269:22 pmTraining and testing16 minf48066fe
Sun 5 Jul 20268:18 pmCall for service19 min3b474ddb
Sun 5 Jul 20269:43 pmCall for service19 min35e04b6a
Sun 5 Jul 202610:07 pmCall for service19 mindeeed8ce
Sun 5 Jul 202611:06 pmCall for service17 min04c2b2bc
Wed 8 Jul 202610:55 amCall for service11 min021fca0b
Thu 9 Jul 20266:00 pmCall for service8 minddd23403
Thu 9 Jul 202610:44 pmCall for service16 min613f5526
Fri 10 Jul 20262:18 pmCall for service17 min0e979ec8
Fri 10 Jul 20264:20 pmNot stated4 minb67f18d3
Fri 10 Jul 202610:34 pmCall for service3 min89e61855
Sun 12 Jul 20267:54 amCall for service14 min947a6256
Sun 12 Jul 20263:29 pmCall for service5 min0e13afac
Mon 13 Jul 20261:18 amCall for service7 minab086c4c
Mon 13 Jul 20269:07 amCall for service19 min434ab4d4
Mon 13 Jul 20264:29 pmCall for service4 minc320d342
Mon 13 Jul 20268:47 pmCall for service3 minef6d817a
Mon 13 Jul 20269:49 pmCall for service6 min7a299ff7
Tue 14 Jul 20264:21 pmCall for service10 minf550ce6c
Thu 16 Jul 20262:19 pmCall for service8 min3e922c69
Fri 17 Jul 20261:28 amNot stated16 min41ca68dd
Fri 17 Jul 20266:38 amCall for service12 mina9a5c0b8
Fri 17 Jul 20266:53 amCall for service13 min7d7c1d82
Fri 17 Jul 202612:00 pmCall for service12 min2eb7511a
Fri 17 Jul 202612:54 pmCall for service15 min1dc24178
Sat 18 Jul 20261:01 amNot stated13 min81eca3e3
Sat 18 Jul 20265:57 amCall for service11 min48b36cb5
Sat 18 Jul 20266:42 amCall for service4 min9a299343
Sat 18 Jul 20268:05 pmNot stated4 minec9c7198
Sat 18 Jul 20268:15 pmCall for service6 minae634219
Sat 18 Jul 202610:05 pmCall for service6 min991a70d6
Sat 18 Jul 202611:32 pmCall for service17 min4d1222bd
Sun 19 Jul 20261:35 pmCall for service18 minc7937bc9
Sun 19 Jul 20267:55 pmCall for service10 min84593241
Sun 19 Jul 20269:38 pmCall for service5 min15e27781
Tue 21 Jul 20261:55 amCall for service18 min238d8cdb
Tue 21 Jul 20269:09 amNot stated8 minf2b32053
Wed 22 Jul 20263:12 pmTraining and testing10 min94635dab
Wed 22 Jul 20263:46 pmTraining and testing7 min84ad6eb2
Thu 23 Jul 20266:10 amCall for service15 mincaef4e14
Thu 23 Jul 202610:41 amCall for service15 min59484e27
Fri 24 Jul 20268:16 amCall for service19 min0ffab7ee
Fri 24 Jul 20261:45 pmCall for service12 minc69252a2
Sat 25 Jul 20265:51 amCall for service4 min2538d791
Sat 25 Jul 20268:17 amCall for service4 mineab411a1
Sat 25 Jul 20262:41 pmCall for service18 minf91b9b79
Sat 25 Jul 20269:52 pmCall for service5 minb52389ab
Sun 26 Jul 20266:06 amCall for service16 minad80f401
Sun 26 Jul 20269:31 amCall for service4 min63ee40ce
Sun 26 Jul 20265:04 pmTraining and testing6 min1186ba12
Sun 26 Jul 20265:24 pmTraining and testing7 mind0c81b5d
Sun 26 Jul 202610:33 pmCall for service5 mina10d00de
Mon 27 Jul 202611:55 amCall for service19 min0bd65eb3
Wed 29 Jul 202611:35 amNot stated6 min0c371da3
Thu 30 Jul 202611:13 amCall for service10 mine6299e25
Thu 30 Jul 20263:08 pmCall for service18 min5636c5a3
Fri 31 Jul 20262:29 amCall for service20 min50de91c2
Fri 31 Jul 20267:17 amCall for service6 min713798dc
Fri 31 Jul 20267:11 pmTraining and testing7 min5e7e330b
Fri 31 Jul 20267:24 pmTraining and testing8 min84b6d959
Fri 31 Jul 20268:45 pmCall for service15 minf4dd4732

All 71 flights in July 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. "Central City" 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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