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Santa Ana, California

Central City, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 73 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

73

drone flights crossed Central City.

73

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central City 73 times between 1 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

73 of the 73 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.
Central CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

22% 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 73 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service93%
  2. Not stated4%
  3. Training and testing1%
  4. Other1%

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 20262:53 amCall for service3 min89566ba7
Mon 3 Aug 20268:14 amCall for service7 min7ef25bf2
Mon 3 Aug 20269:07 amCall for service6 min12db3e1e
Mon 3 Aug 202612:12 pmCall for service9 min1b8f37f6
Tue 4 Aug 20265:35 pmCall for service14 minb6cd3517
Wed 5 Aug 20263:39 amCall for service17 minb29cb0ad
Wed 5 Aug 20269:01 amCall for service19 min47ce5001
Wed 5 Aug 202610:03 amCall for service8 min57b51879
Wed 5 Aug 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min4f0b9a74
Wed 5 Aug 20264:50 pmCall for service4 min9a63ccab
Wed 5 Aug 202611:29 pmNot stated8 minb3bf4b17
Thu 6 Aug 20268:30 amCall for service20 minc47b0757
Thu 6 Aug 202610:47 amCall for service8 min5fb5202d
Thu 6 Aug 20269:11 pmCall for service6 min3d486d8e
Fri 7 Aug 20269:46 amCall for service8 min26a3ae87
Sat 8 Aug 20267:06 amCall for service9 minefb0a16b
Sat 8 Aug 20268:51 pmCall for service16 min347de642
Sun 9 Aug 202612:16 pmCall for service9 minc4caf01e
Mon 10 Aug 20266:24 amCall for service11 min42753b06
Tue 11 Aug 20264:39 pmCall for service11 mina5d6e22e
Tue 11 Aug 202610:34 pmCall for service7 min75e0a1d8
Wed 12 Aug 202612:59 pmCall for service17 minb09d972c
Wed 12 Aug 20267:29 pmNot stated15 minf57c5956
Thu 13 Aug 202610:55 amCall for service12 min147e1754
Fri 14 Aug 202610:46 amCall for service6 min7cd6619f
Fri 14 Aug 202611:52 amCall for service11 min76a45aaa
Fri 14 Aug 20262:50 pmCall for service10 minff48958b
Fri 14 Aug 20268:28 pmCall for service13 minfc41aa1b
Fri 14 Aug 202611:24 pmCall for service13 min0b33a553
Sun 16 Aug 20261:37 amCall for service12 min9b8c98e6
Sun 16 Aug 20267:44 amCall for service6 min5a20f104
Sun 16 Aug 20268:08 amCall for service11 min6412a4f7
Sun 16 Aug 20261:31 pmCall for service9 mina21896eb
Sun 16 Aug 20264:47 pmCall for service5 min81d4b943
Tue 18 Aug 20267:58 amCall for service19 minfffb1831
Tue 18 Aug 20268:19 amCall for service10 min9efa3bb5
Wed 19 Aug 202610:33 amCall for service15 minb161c030
Wed 19 Aug 202611:48 amCall for service17 minc09d097e
Thu 20 Aug 202611:52 amCall for service16 mind0bc8d2a
Thu 20 Aug 202612:46 pmCall for service10 min598a1d68
Fri 21 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service22 mine0632fdd
Fri 21 Aug 202611:57 pmCall for service17 min87401f47
Sat 22 Aug 20262:17 amTraining and testing10 mincd8fa929
Sat 22 Aug 202612:53 pmCall for service12 min735df61e
Sat 22 Aug 20267:29 pmCall for service5 min66ec006f
Sat 22 Aug 20268:37 pmCall for service12 min06af7651
Sat 22 Aug 202610:33 pmCall for service12 min99a645f4
Sun 23 Aug 20266:27 amCall for service13 minb9054a1c
Sun 23 Aug 20267:44 amCall for service14 min4af8fb17
Mon 24 Aug 202612:57 amCall for service13 minebb2cce4
Mon 24 Aug 20268:03 amCall for service11 mineb8e5623
Mon 24 Aug 202611:23 amCall for service15 min988de74b
Mon 24 Aug 20262:41 pmCall for service14 min9317cfd0
Mon 24 Aug 20266:51 pmCall for service17 min8bdd484e
Mon 24 Aug 20268:12 pmCall for service16 mina735fc9f
Mon 24 Aug 202610:40 pmCall for service16 min28779187
Tue 25 Aug 20261:00 amCall for service17 min3795e54d
Tue 25 Aug 20264:53 amCall for service20 min43f935ab
Tue 25 Aug 20266:08 amCall for service12 min3a170c1d
Tue 25 Aug 20266:51 amCall for service16 mine3ac6043
Tue 25 Aug 20267:29 amCall for service7 minb8c6ee76
Tue 25 Aug 20267:57 amCall for service7 min8c692130
Tue 25 Aug 20268:43 amCall for service9 min4d9be487
Tue 25 Aug 202611:12 amOther16 mine988504e
Tue 25 Aug 20269:56 pmCall for service5 min380430e8
Wed 26 Aug 20264:00 pmCall for service14 mind943cce0
Wed 26 Aug 20268:12 pmCall for service5 minf7eb87c8
Fri 28 Aug 20261:03 amCall for service8 min6b407e73
Fri 28 Aug 202611:53 amNot stated15 mincf39306f
Fri 28 Aug 20263:59 pmCall for service2 min514966a8
Fri 28 Aug 202610:13 pmCall for service9 min0a307baf
Sat 29 Aug 202610:59 amCall for service12 min36a98b63
Sat 29 Aug 202611:57 amCall for service5 min76ed4c57

All 73 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. "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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