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Santa Ana, California

Downtown

A neighborhood page. 572 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

572

drone flights crossed Downtown.

111

of them in October 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 572 times between 22 May 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

109 of the 109 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, minus its first and last 200 m.
DowntownOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

21% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Downtown, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 34
  3. 186
  4. 132
  5. 108
  6. 111
May 26Jun 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 572 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service76%
  2. Training and testing20%
  3. Not stated5%
  4. Other0%

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 20269:40 amCall for service4 min72d1ab55
Thu 1 Oct 202610:43 amCall for service6 mind3847947
Thu 1 Oct 202611:21 amCall for service8 min7f960222
Thu 1 Oct 202611:42 amTraining and testing7 mind04556df
Thu 1 Oct 202612:25 pmCall for service5 mineb067bdf
Thu 1 Oct 20262:16 pmCall for service12 min287bd843
Thu 1 Oct 20264:04 pmCall for service4 min769de519
Fri 2 Oct 202610:48 amCall for service3 minc018928d
Fri 2 Oct 20265:19 pmCall for service12 min7950c627
Fri 2 Oct 20266:48 pmCall for service4 minb229be8f
Sat 3 Oct 20262:09 amTraining and testing4 min78b6a70c
Sat 3 Oct 20262:47 pmCall for service9 min233d2641
Sat 3 Oct 20266:54 pmTraining and testing4 minaf1da249
Sat 3 Oct 20267:05 pmTraining and testing3 min9c62dbe0
Sun 4 Oct 20268:48 amCall for service7 min503ffe8b
Sun 4 Oct 20269:07 amTraining and testing2 mine45cd02a
Sun 4 Oct 20269:48 amCall for service8 minc8e964dd
Sun 4 Oct 202611:34 amTraining and testing2 minc8811622
Sun 4 Oct 202612:05 pmTraining and testing2 min8b0e8b39
Sun 4 Oct 202612:24 pmCall for service5 min7f9c4a5f
Sun 4 Oct 20265:37 pmTraining and testing42 sf3764093
Sun 4 Oct 20269:08 pmCall for service12 minbaa8bca8
Mon 5 Oct 20266:21 amCall for service16 min76d7a807
Mon 5 Oct 20267:48 amCall for service3 min5863c546
Mon 5 Oct 202612:43 pmCall for service7 min63d877cb
Tue 6 Oct 20265:54 amCall for service6 minbdf7ee29
Tue 6 Oct 20265:02 pmCall for service10 mincaf31813
Tue 6 Oct 20266:30 pmCall for service2 min4d5adeec
Tue 6 Oct 202611:15 pmCall for service17 min3e1f7368
Wed 7 Oct 20262:05 amCall for service9 min0a202e8d
Wed 7 Oct 20265:12 amCall for service9 min631511d1
Wed 7 Oct 20264:03 pmCall for service15 minaa536dc2
Wed 7 Oct 20268:38 pmCall for service14 min59676b53
Thu 8 Oct 20265:17 amTraining and testing2 min8df30ef3
Thu 8 Oct 20266:21 amTraining and testing3 mineff93433
Fri 9 Oct 20265:44 amCall for service5 min47371be4
Fri 9 Oct 20263:49 pmTraining and testing3 min18bd9b29
Fri 9 Oct 20264:04 pmTraining and testing5 min1d784126
Fri 9 Oct 20267:10 pmCall for service6 min7759d560
Fri 9 Oct 20267:24 pmCall for service15 min4fb4fa10
Fri 9 Oct 20267:58 pmCall for service4 min2102ba3c
Fri 9 Oct 202610:31 pmCall for service6 min40cb99b7
Sat 10 Oct 20262:13 amCall for service10 minca449877
Sat 10 Oct 20263:52 amCall for service11 minf23d93c3
Sat 10 Oct 20266:08 amCall for service15 min32dc2d51
Sat 10 Oct 202610:49 amCall for service19 min9836ff9a
Sat 10 Oct 202611:56 amCall for service11 min18a166bd
Sat 10 Oct 202612:15 pmCall for service9 min2c9d2c2c
Sat 10 Oct 202612:29 pmTraining and testing2 min9a53668a
Sat 10 Oct 20261:39 pmNot stated19 minc6411e9e
Sat 10 Oct 20262:04 pmCall for service8 min1393b125
Sat 10 Oct 20262:21 pmCall for service9 mind9cca935
Sat 10 Oct 20264:14 pmCall for service10 mindbe4236d
Sat 10 Oct 20266:37 pmCall for service7 minbe691c58
Sun 11 Oct 20268:20 amCall for service10 minc277ccbe
Sun 11 Oct 202610:57 amCall for service9 min70613a0c
Sun 11 Oct 20265:56 pmTraining and testing1 min 31 s7424e1a7
Sun 11 Oct 20266:19 pmCall for service7 mina68c493f
Mon 12 Oct 20261:00 amNot stated14 minaabdc2bd
Mon 12 Oct 20261:33 pmCall for service13 min89ce93ca
Mon 12 Oct 20262:35 pmCall for service9 minabaf400b
Mon 12 Oct 20264:41 pmCall for service17 min1de29d0e
Tue 13 Oct 20261:41 amCall for service8 mina9001269
Tue 13 Oct 20263:03 amCall for service15 minbb684b1f
Tue 13 Oct 20261:19 pmCall for service19 minaab96f92
Wed 14 Oct 20261:50 pmCall for service15 min9b1fba2e
Wed 14 Oct 20262:40 pmCall for service9 minc23896ed
Thu 15 Oct 20267:51 pmTraining and testing30 sacf2b54b
Thu 15 Oct 202610:42 pmTraining and testing6 min24fdd042
Fri 16 Oct 20268:49 amCall for service14 minb89732c6
Fri 16 Oct 202610:10 amCall for service3 min2dac8015
Fri 16 Oct 20267:26 pmCall for service5 min3c4a50d1
Sat 17 Oct 202610:44 amCall for service12 minf6bbb45a
Sat 17 Oct 202611:36 pmCall for service12 minb50d8cb3
Sun 18 Oct 20266:55 pmTraining and testing2 min9ef8b462
Sun 18 Oct 20267:03 pmTraining and testing4 min0c0f25a5
Sun 18 Oct 20267:56 pmCall for service10 mincce490cd
Mon 19 Oct 20268:02 pmTraining and testing4 minffb0cf07
Tue 20 Oct 20262:35 amTraining and testing5 min705d1bc7
Tue 20 Oct 20268:18 amCall for service6 minbda99862
Tue 20 Oct 202610:28 amTraining and testing3 mine5e7ab4d
Tue 20 Oct 202610:43 amTraining and testing3 min6d3c5b51
Tue 20 Oct 20262:38 pmCall for service10 min509841a2
Wed 21 Oct 20263:22 amCall for service10 mina41059c4
Wed 21 Oct 202610:32 amCall for service4 min13984f96
Wed 21 Oct 202611:41 amCall for service8 min9e1c454f
Wed 21 Oct 202611:59 amCall for service4 min624e07ad
Wed 21 Oct 20262:01 pmCall for service7 min8b7da163
Thu 22 Oct 20262:49 pmCall for service2 min7106de06
Thu 22 Oct 20263:10 pmTraining and testing3 min2b838b2f
Fri 23 Oct 20268:36 amCall for service16 mina51bddba
Fri 23 Oct 20269:11 amCall for service6 min5ff20c4f
Sat 24 Oct 202612:42 pmCall for service18 min988f12e1
Sat 24 Oct 20261:04 pmCall for service15 mineb85a382
Sat 24 Oct 20261:24 pmCall for service13 mine069c3cf
Sat 24 Oct 20264:57 pmCall for service10 mind3159177
Sat 24 Oct 20265:11 pmTraining and testing3 min022e8ddd
Sat 24 Oct 20266:13 pmCall for service6 min80ea0048
Sun 25 Oct 202612:40 pmCall for service9 min43800cf9
Sun 25 Oct 20261:46 pmCall for service7 min95a806b2
Mon 26 Oct 20262:26 amCall for service16 minc38a7126
Mon 26 Oct 20263:12 pmCall for service11 min3057ba1e
Mon 26 Oct 20269:26 pmCall for service20 min197b5ab2
Tue 27 Oct 202612:58 amCall for service20 min7f118fe1
Tue 27 Oct 20264:20 amCall for service16 minb3e9949f
Tue 27 Oct 20266:13 amCall for service13 min439c3065
Tue 27 Oct 20269:09 amCall for service8 minb27d2003
Tue 27 Oct 20261:54 pmCall for service12 min6386326f
Tue 27 Oct 20264:32 pmCall for service13 min8bdc787a
Thu 29 Oct 20268:20 amCall for service24 min0f58c54d
Thu 29 Oct 20269:28 amCall for service18 minb87b6004

All 111 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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. "Downtown" 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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