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Santa Ana, California

Central City, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 57 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

57

drone flights crossed Central City.

57

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central City 57 times between 1 October 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

57 of the 57 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.
Central CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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 57 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Training and testing9%
  3. Other2%
  4. Not stated2%

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 20266:56 amCall for service5 minebe57c88
Thu 1 Oct 202611:35 amCall for service6 min810bee09
Thu 1 Oct 20261:52 pmCall for service9 minc70c532a
Fri 2 Oct 20265:52 amCall for service7 min8737b7bb
Fri 2 Oct 202611:54 amCall for service16 minb7c6041d
Fri 2 Oct 20261:51 pmCall for service15 min93d0887a
Fri 2 Oct 20265:19 pmCall for service12 min7950c627
Sat 3 Oct 20262:58 pmCall for service12 minf3929462
Mon 5 Oct 202611:52 amCall for service7 mindc98b0e3
Mon 5 Oct 20262:08 pmTraining and testing8 min3d61287c
Mon 5 Oct 20263:26 pmCall for service11 mincc98a5a2
Tue 6 Oct 20262:26 pmCall for service6 minf13f7052
Thu 8 Oct 20269:20 amCall for service11 min798e1b8d
Thu 8 Oct 202611:45 amCall for service20 mine69520e8
Fri 9 Oct 20262:27 pmCall for service21 mine6504613
Sat 10 Oct 20262:04 pmCall for service8 min1393b125
Sat 10 Oct 20263:18 pmCall for service11 min5d8155b4
Tue 13 Oct 20262:44 amCall for service14 min6888da6a
Tue 13 Oct 20263:14 amCall for service8 min7c634979
Tue 13 Oct 20264:29 amCall for service15 min92b89680
Tue 13 Oct 20266:56 amCall for service13 min7757b6f3
Tue 13 Oct 202612:01 pmCall for service17 min1edb7f9d
Tue 13 Oct 20261:19 pmCall for service19 minaab96f92
Tue 13 Oct 20268:03 pmCall for service20 minab7ed3d9
Wed 14 Oct 202610:52 amCall for service6 min2d71224c
Wed 14 Oct 20262:40 pmCall for service9 minc23896ed
Wed 14 Oct 20265:21 pmCall for service12 min276883c2
Thu 15 Oct 20269:29 amCall for service6 minac91a3bd
Fri 16 Oct 20262:46 pmCall for service10 min2718f76c
Sat 17 Oct 20266:42 pmTraining and testing8 min6222715f
Sat 17 Oct 20267:02 pmTraining and testing8 mind503c974
Sat 17 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service11 min87c89df5
Sat 17 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service14 minb7ce67fc
Sat 17 Oct 202611:36 pmCall for service12 minb50d8cb3
Sun 18 Oct 20263:52 amCall for service19 mincd1f1585
Sun 18 Oct 20264:59 amCall for service8 min43acec4d
Sun 18 Oct 20267:56 pmCall for service10 mincce490cd
Tue 20 Oct 20269:13 amOther19 min56f21d9c
Wed 21 Oct 20263:47 pmCall for service5 min54835322
Thu 22 Oct 20269:07 amCall for service10 min67322fe5
Thu 22 Oct 20269:41 amCall for service5 min898bd889
Thu 22 Oct 202610:48 amCall for service6 min4e0a8789
Fri 23 Oct 202610:51 amCall for service11 minb960b21a
Fri 23 Oct 202611:49 amCall for service26 min8270099d
Fri 23 Oct 20264:06 pmCall for service9 min493f502d
Fri 23 Oct 20264:33 pmCall for service14 minfbe58d7d
Fri 23 Oct 20264:57 pmNot stated20 minc091ad10
Sat 24 Oct 202610:54 amCall for service5 min05d417c4
Sat 24 Oct 20263:33 pmCall for service8 mind5d42ef7
Mon 26 Oct 20266:57 amCall for service8 min1478aec8
Mon 26 Oct 202612:27 pmCall for service13 mind485ac28
Tue 27 Oct 20263:23 pmCall for service15 min99a6df96
Thu 29 Oct 20266:28 amCall for service10 min56eb1eda
Thu 29 Oct 20269:04 amCall for service16 min829f9fac
Thu 29 Oct 20269:28 amCall for service18 minb87b6004
Thu 29 Oct 20262:31 pmTraining and testing5 min53152497
Thu 29 Oct 20262:40 pmTraining and testing6 mind0d8f525

All 57 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, 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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