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Madison Park

A neighborhood page. 206 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

206

drone flights crossed Madison Park.

35

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Madison Park 206 times between 23 June 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

35 of the 35 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.
Madison ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

29% 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.

Month by month

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

  1. 3
  2. 57
  3. 53
  4. 58
  5. 35
Jun 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 206 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service90%
  2. Not stated7%
  3. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20263:54 pmCall for service13 min5e6447fe
Fri 2 Oct 20264:27 pmCall for service9 min7488d681
Sat 3 Oct 20269:47 pmCall for service4 min3be665af
Sun 4 Oct 20261:46 pmCall for service14 min24860723
Mon 5 Oct 202612:04 pmCall for service6 minacf0b5ff
Mon 5 Oct 20263:49 pmCall for service10 min09d0c801
Tue 6 Oct 202610:43 amCall for service13 min9549602b
Tue 6 Oct 202612:18 pmCall for service14 min06ca20e9
Wed 7 Oct 202612:45 amCall for service9 min521be65d
Wed 7 Oct 20262:29 amCall for service12 min29306a44
Fri 9 Oct 202611:02 amCall for service11 mind3ac8c87
Mon 12 Oct 202611:37 amCall for service7 min6e4e32a7
Mon 12 Oct 202610:34 pmCall for service9 min28da1510
Mon 12 Oct 202611:43 pmCall for service17 min103d519a
Tue 13 Oct 20265:20 amCall for service14 min8f258512
Tue 13 Oct 20265:39 amCall for service9 min87fd5451
Tue 13 Oct 20266:56 amCall for service13 min7757b6f3
Wed 14 Oct 20261:50 pmCall for service15 min9b1fba2e
Thu 15 Oct 20268:17 amCall for service12 mindff36f51
Thu 15 Oct 20262:42 pmCall for service9 min50050a88
Sat 17 Oct 20264:24 amCall for service13 min8260e0c8
Sat 17 Oct 20268:33 amCall for service10 min7e61548a
Sat 17 Oct 20268:03 pmCall for service10 mine53658c9
Sun 18 Oct 20264:14 amCall for service10 min112803a8
Sun 18 Oct 20267:20 pmCall for service14 min7b955aee
Sun 18 Oct 20268:07 pmCall for service13 mina26f9b86
Fri 23 Oct 20268:02 amCall for service6 minc781799c
Sat 24 Oct 20268:29 pmCall for service13 minbd772bb4
Sun 25 Oct 20263:17 pmCall for service8 mind5a668e1
Sun 25 Oct 202611:30 pmCall for service22 min0ac1d351
Mon 26 Oct 20261:45 pmCall for service12 min69bf5a47
Tue 27 Oct 20269:33 amCall for service11 min5f324b46
Wed 28 Oct 202612:34 amCall for service14 min0c1f3aad
Thu 29 Oct 20266:19 amCall for service8 min1f89856d
Thu 29 Oct 20264:06 pmCall for service19 minb58d4b94

All 35 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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. "Madison Park" 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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