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Santa Ana, California

Downtown, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 108 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

108

drone flights crossed Downtown.

108

of them in September 2026.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 108 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.

108 of the 108 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

20% 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 108 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service81%
  2. Training and testing17%
  3. Not stated2%
  4. Other1%

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 20262:01 amCall for service14 min1a5cefcb
Tue 1 Sep 20262:34 amCall for service14 mind2b03ff8
Tue 1 Sep 20262:58 amCall for service16 minf5a45c02
Tue 1 Sep 20263:27 amCall for service15 minaafb54cd
Tue 1 Sep 20263:49 amCall for service14 mineea0be21
Tue 1 Sep 20264:59 amCall for service15 minfbdee6a2
Tue 1 Sep 20268:14 amCall for service7 min0ebd3390
Tue 1 Sep 20268:57 amCall for service9 min3076b63a
Tue 1 Sep 20265:44 pmTraining and testing1 min 54 s3e59be02
Tue 1 Sep 20266:00 pmTraining and testing3 min3b5fd838
Tue 1 Sep 20266:42 pmCall for service20 minf850c2f9
Tue 1 Sep 202611:18 pmTraining and testing4 minaa55e7e0
Thu 3 Sep 202612:44 pmCall for service7 min700a8e89
Fri 4 Sep 202610:05 amCall for service16 mina9e4519b
Fri 4 Sep 202611:19 amCall for service10 mincdfbb77c
Fri 4 Sep 202611:53 amCall for service14 mina036eb4e
Fri 4 Sep 20264:58 pmCall for service4 min52c4cfec
Fri 4 Sep 20266:22 pmCall for service10 min0fc8898e
Sat 5 Sep 20269:33 amCall for service3 min2eb70377
Sat 5 Sep 20269:44 amCall for service8 min1fc7e6cd
Sat 5 Sep 202611:20 amCall for service9 min3a0b5e87
Sat 5 Sep 20262:34 pmCall for service12 min3a2aee57
Sat 5 Sep 20264:50 pmCall for service13 min139dbb5d
Sat 5 Sep 202611:58 pmCall for service4 minf402f918
Mon 7 Sep 20262:45 amTraining and testing1 min 58 s89d0034b
Mon 7 Sep 20264:24 amCall for service11 minfcac7e77
Mon 7 Sep 20268:23 amCall for service17 min137a5dfd
Mon 7 Sep 20262:54 pmCall for service8 min28210919
Tue 8 Sep 20265:49 amCall for service11 min69e2d285
Tue 8 Sep 20268:58 amCall for service15 min626903f6
Tue 8 Sep 202610:42 amCall for service9 minbe1ca5ed
Tue 8 Sep 202612:06 pmCall for service5 mineda5521a
Wed 9 Sep 20269:42 amCall for service4 mineeaf51f7
Wed 9 Sep 202612:13 pmCall for service13 min01903864
Wed 9 Sep 20266:45 pmCall for service9 min6bee62f0
Wed 9 Sep 20267:06 pmCall for service8 min7a26455e
Thu 10 Sep 20267:05 amNot stated4 min9eed7163
Thu 10 Sep 202610:41 amCall for service5 minaf108ce0
Thu 10 Sep 20263:28 pmCall for service6 min5664eced
Fri 11 Sep 20262:24 amCall for service14 min55eb8fea
Fri 11 Sep 20268:47 amCall for service3 min8b7113f5
Fri 11 Sep 20269:36 amCall for service14 min5e79136d
Fri 11 Sep 202610:29 amCall for service6 mine7023e0c
Fri 11 Sep 202611:17 amCall for service8 mine22e123c
Fri 11 Sep 202612:15 pmCall for service9 minc71f6683
Fri 11 Sep 202612:57 pmCall for service12 min7d09192b
Fri 11 Sep 20263:35 pmCall for service6 minb9bf542a
Fri 11 Sep 20267:01 pmTraining and testing12 minb7f6cc0e
Fri 11 Sep 20267:18 pmCall for service7 mind2be1d04
Fri 11 Sep 20268:37 pmCall for service5 mined07a275
Sun 13 Sep 20265:51 amCall for service7 minc1321c82
Sun 13 Sep 20269:17 amCall for service4 mine695e2c3
Sun 13 Sep 20269:47 amCall for service10 min48f0041e
Sun 13 Sep 202610:18 amCall for service6 min35c16041
Sun 13 Sep 202611:19 amCall for service6 min768a6c54
Sun 13 Sep 20264:49 pmCall for service5 mina2bc4018
Sun 13 Sep 20265:42 pmTraining and testing2 mined39a856
Sun 13 Sep 20266:13 pmTraining and testing3 mina8143201
Sun 13 Sep 20267:16 pmCall for service12 min11cb5946
Sun 13 Sep 20268:39 pmCall for service17 mind0029e3f
Mon 14 Sep 20265:47 amTraining and testing6 min3bc8c13e
Tue 15 Sep 20261:06 amCall for service15 minf01f851c
Tue 15 Sep 202612:55 pmCall for service4 minb606a2b7
Thu 17 Sep 20261:22 pmNot stated6 mindde67824
Fri 18 Sep 20269:32 amCall for service5 mina404b9ac
Fri 18 Sep 20267:22 pmCall for service4 minab08ede7
Fri 18 Sep 20267:36 pmTraining and testing9 mind6567e1d
Sat 19 Sep 20265:51 amCall for service10 min8bc4d280
Sat 19 Sep 20261:28 pmCall for service6 min73804772
Sat 19 Sep 20264:56 pmCall for service8 min26054c30
Sat 19 Sep 20266:07 pmCall for service3 minc3ff6e6d
Sat 19 Sep 20266:16 pmTraining and testing4 min8fa83871
Sat 19 Sep 20266:41 pmCall for service12 min9d6ad847
Sun 20 Sep 202612:22 amCall for service5 min7d6acca3
Sun 20 Sep 202612:29 amTraining and testing4 min9c1edfa2
Sun 20 Sep 20267:33 amCall for service5 min0b697a63
Sun 20 Sep 20263:26 pmCall for service5 min5b1086c1
Wed 23 Sep 20265:00 pmCall for service7 min2e7c21e1
Wed 23 Sep 20265:44 pmCall for service4 min2f6f8daa
Wed 23 Sep 20265:59 pmTraining and testing3 min32ffb28c
Wed 23 Sep 20266:03 pmTraining and testing6 min8f674aa3
Wed 23 Sep 20267:57 pmTraining and testing6 min46a0147e
Thu 24 Sep 202610:40 amTraining and testing2 min6cf53fb6
Thu 24 Sep 202610:47 amOther13 min82dffbe1
Thu 24 Sep 202612:04 pmCall for service17 min3255542c
Fri 25 Sep 20266:18 amCall for service13 mincba28313
Fri 25 Sep 20266:50 amCall for service7 minb671d2b8
Fri 25 Sep 20268:48 amCall for service13 min04778c36
Fri 25 Sep 20263:34 pmCall for service13 min64f9e5eb
Fri 25 Sep 20268:21 pmCall for service13 minc80f6420
Fri 25 Sep 20269:44 pmCall for service12 minc74d734d
Fri 25 Sep 202610:07 pmCall for service7 min3431b917
Sun 27 Sep 20266:39 amCall for service3 min8e39f7a6
Sun 27 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service7 mindd070794
Sun 27 Sep 20263:08 pmCall for service7 minba732151
Sun 27 Sep 20266:16 pmCall for service6 minbe26d5c3
Sun 27 Sep 20267:16 pmCall for service21 minc5024e4b
Sun 27 Sep 202610:33 pmTraining and testing3 min31e22437
Mon 28 Sep 202612:25 pmCall for service3 min64803783
Mon 28 Sep 20268:07 pmCall for service9 min61a0ec2e
Tue 29 Sep 20262:16 amCall for service19 min78c429d4
Tue 29 Sep 20264:46 amCall for service16 min4f65d6a2
Tue 29 Sep 202611:17 amCall for service9 minb7d6f5b5
Tue 29 Sep 20264:18 pmCall for service7 min5d09d79f
Tue 29 Sep 20265:50 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 sc50adae7
Tue 29 Sep 20265:54 pmTraining and testing28 s79aa81b4
Tue 29 Sep 20266:53 pmCall for service11 minbf9e2882
Wed 30 Sep 20261:58 pmCall for service5 mind5d15796

All 108 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. "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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