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Santa Ana, California

Central City, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 52 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

52

drone flights crossed Central City.

52

of them in September 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central City 52 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.

52 of the 52 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.
Central CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

31% 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 52 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Training and testing17%
  3. Not stated6%

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 20262:34 amCall for service14 mind2b03ff8
Tue 1 Sep 20263:27 amCall for service15 minaafb54cd
Tue 1 Sep 20261:27 pmCall for service3 min1ac23bd2
Tue 1 Sep 20266:04 pmTraining and testing5 min53c98d31
Tue 1 Sep 20266:33 pmTraining and testing8 min28e9442d
Thu 3 Sep 202612:04 amCall for service20 min58fa6f42
Thu 3 Sep 20268:24 amNot stated7 mina59fbe2f
Thu 3 Sep 202612:28 pmCall for service10 minb439814a
Thu 3 Sep 20265:02 pmCall for service6 mina70555d5
Fri 4 Sep 202611:08 pmCall for service10 min71fe06b3
Tue 8 Sep 20266:02 amCall for service10 min24b6e7ad
Tue 8 Sep 20268:48 amCall for service8 min89b4e47d
Tue 8 Sep 20263:50 pmCall for service4 minfb6fe238
Wed 9 Sep 202612:17 amCall for service15 minbba3c304
Wed 9 Sep 20266:54 pmCall for service11 min4aa08fd3
Wed 9 Sep 20267:42 pmCall for service3 min95baddca
Thu 10 Sep 20268:55 amNot stated5 min0debf614
Fri 11 Sep 20261:35 amCall for service5 min3cf7829a
Fri 11 Sep 20262:24 amCall for service14 min55eb8fea
Fri 11 Sep 20262:45 amTraining and testing3 mineb9fba01
Fri 11 Sep 20266:33 amCall for service8 min4c128305
Fri 11 Sep 202610:03 pmCall for service7 mindcea97ef
Fri 11 Sep 202610:51 pmTraining and testing18 mina122a5df
Sat 12 Sep 20267:19 amCall for service21 min02e548cd
Sun 13 Sep 20267:58 amCall for service6 mine06cfc42
Sun 13 Sep 20266:25 pmTraining and testing5 min3516de0e
Sun 13 Sep 20266:35 pmTraining and testing8 min71e4c251
Tue 15 Sep 20261:30 amCall for service14 minc8e14c9c
Tue 15 Sep 20268:58 amCall for service5 minfb741719
Tue 15 Sep 202612:37 pmCall for service9 minc575d79f
Fri 18 Sep 20269:50 amCall for service16 min8549f622
Sat 19 Sep 20266:03 amCall for service12 min910f1830
Sat 19 Sep 20265:05 pmCall for service17 min356c5e26
Mon 21 Sep 202611:59 amCall for service4 min5845d270
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
Fri 25 Sep 202611:08 pmCall for service4 minbc2aea90
Sat 26 Sep 202612:40 amCall for service10 mina9a50dea
Sun 27 Sep 202612:46 pmTraining and testing9 minbd434630
Sun 27 Sep 20262:42 pmCall for service16 min9f62596d
Sun 27 Sep 20264:58 pmCall for service4 minbc58a08d
Sun 27 Sep 20266:07 pmCall for service6 min06ef5e5b
Mon 28 Sep 20263:23 amCall for service18 min407154e0
Tue 29 Sep 20263:41 amCall for service15 mind36ee960
Tue 29 Sep 20262:08 pmCall for service4 min98aed20b
Wed 30 Sep 202610:24 amCall for service11 min7aafffbf
Wed 30 Sep 20262:05 pmCall for service19 min0af210ab
Wed 30 Sep 20262:42 pmNot stated4 min6cc2cec7
Wed 30 Sep 20263:00 pmTraining and testing7 mina4c9761a
Wed 30 Sep 20263:58 pmCall for service5 min831aff94

All 52 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. "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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