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Santa Ana, California

Mar-Les, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

7

drone flights crossed Mar-Les.

7

of them in August 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mar-Les 7 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
Mar-LesOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service86%
  2. Training and testing14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20264:05 pmTraining and testing9 min2a8a66f2
Tue 4 Aug 20262:39 pmCall for service6 min75e18bef
Wed 5 Aug 202612:18 amCall for service14 min50d086e3
Sat 15 Aug 20266:26 pmCall for service8 min6ef433e7
Sat 22 Aug 20265:08 pmCall for service14 mind71c7346
Wed 26 Aug 20268:25 pmCall for service6 minc1535c2b
Mon 31 Aug 20266:11 pmCall for service18 min6fb4383d

All 7 flights in August 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. "Mar-Les" 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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