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Santa Ana, California

Grand Sunrise, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

18

drone flights crossed Grand Sunrise.

18

of them in September 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Grand Sunrise 18 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

18 of the 18 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.
Grand SunriseOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

17% 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. 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 20263:49 amCall for service14 mineea0be21
Fri 4 Sep 20268:39 amCall for service7 minf60190bd
Fri 4 Sep 202611:19 amCall for service10 mincdfbb77c
Sat 5 Sep 202611:20 amCall for service9 min3a0b5e87
Tue 8 Sep 20263:55 pmCall for service12 minc9babe3d
Mon 14 Sep 20268:05 amCall for service8 minf9b878d8
Mon 14 Sep 20262:43 pmCall for service11 min56ae0192
Tue 15 Sep 202612:14 amCall for service15 min5deab66b
Fri 18 Sep 20263:36 pmCall for service8 min28838f38
Fri 18 Sep 20266:28 pmCall for service15 min864bcc49
Sat 19 Sep 20269:10 amCall for service14 mineca62328
Mon 21 Sep 20267:07 pmNot stated20 min1ee30f2c
Wed 23 Sep 20265:25 pmCall for service9 min6e885579
Fri 25 Sep 20268:48 amCall for service13 min04778c36
Mon 28 Sep 20261:17 pmCall for service10 mind6dd9331
Tue 29 Sep 20264:46 amCall for service16 min4f65d6a2
Tue 29 Sep 20266:21 amCall for service10 min6c1fbf6c
Tue 29 Sep 202610:43 amCall for service12 min4570af09

All 18 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. "Grand Sunrise" 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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