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Santa Ana, California

Downtown, June 2026

A neighborhood page. 34 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in June 2026.

34

drone flights crossed Downtown.

34

of them in June 2026.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 34 times between 16 June 2026 and 30 June 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 June 2026.

34 of the 34 drawable flights that crossed the area in June 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

6% 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 34 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing82%
  2. Call for service12%
  3. Not stated6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, June 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 16 Jun 20261:47 pmTraining and testing8 min9e6ae713
Tue 16 Jun 20263:02 pmTraining and testing7 min8d1841c9
Tue 16 Jun 20263:15 pmTraining and testing11 min604c7caf
Thu 18 Jun 20267:09 amTraining and testing11 min638a6b0d
Thu 18 Jun 202610:17 amTraining and testing22 min96da0236
Thu 18 Jun 202611:17 amTraining and testing8 minf3e5cf33
Thu 18 Jun 202611:45 amTraining and testing6 min983242f0
Thu 18 Jun 20261:13 pmTraining and testing7 min0c8bf6db
Tue 23 Jun 20262:34 pmTraining and testing18 minf05beeb7
Wed 24 Jun 20267:59 amTraining and testing5 min9e0cb87e
Wed 24 Jun 20269:48 amTraining and testing3 mina853848d
Wed 24 Jun 202610:02 amTraining and testing19 min59e983a2
Wed 24 Jun 202612:09 pmTraining and testing6 minbca94176
Wed 24 Jun 202612:20 pmTraining and testing9 minf0b66345
Wed 24 Jun 202612:48 pmTraining and testing8 min0637033e
Wed 24 Jun 20261:01 pmTraining and testing9 min1a37ce0b
Wed 24 Jun 20262:52 pmTraining and testing7 minf9fff9c6
Thu 25 Jun 20269:51 amTraining and testing4 min62d330ab
Thu 25 Jun 202612:25 pmTraining and testing9 min600b0256
Fri 26 Jun 20269:52 amTraining and testing8 minc757d048
Fri 26 Jun 202610:24 amTraining and testing24 min39c7ecc5
Fri 26 Jun 202611:09 amTraining and testing10 minf9702d6f
Fri 26 Jun 202611:24 amTraining and testing10 mine22390de
Fri 26 Jun 20261:23 pmCall for service7 minb585b018
Fri 26 Jun 20261:35 pmCall for service6 min73755616
Tue 30 Jun 202611:31 amCall for service7 min3dff1876
Tue 30 Jun 202612:31 pmNot stated5 mind67cc25a
Tue 30 Jun 20263:13 pmCall for service5 min396361de
Tue 30 Jun 20267:54 pmTraining and testing7 min4340b244
Tue 30 Jun 20268:38 pmTraining and testing19 minbb1b64a4
Tue 30 Jun 20269:15 pmTraining and testing12 min19035862
Tue 30 Jun 20269:30 pmTraining and testing22 mine763e8ff
Tue 30 Jun 202610:27 pmNot stated17 mina6ba7cd5
Tue 30 Jun 202611:22 pmTraining and testing6 min932a3d69

All 34 flights in June 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. "Downtown" 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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