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Santa Ana, California

Metro Classic

A neighborhood page. 31 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

31

drone flights crossed Metro Classic.

9

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Metro Classic 31 times between 1 July 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

9 of the 9 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.
Metro ClassicOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

23% 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 Metro Classic, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 6
  2. 11
  3. 5
  4. 9
Jul 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service97%
  2. 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
Tue 6 Oct 202611:35 amCall for service19 min7b37f06e
Tue 6 Oct 202612:36 pmCall for service15 min556b440f
Thu 8 Oct 202611:18 amCall for service10 min6884593c
Fri 9 Oct 202610:40 pmCall for service12 min5a42ec66
Sun 11 Oct 20269:29 pmCall for service16 min97d4f46f
Thu 15 Oct 20266:37 amCall for service11 min518af393
Tue 20 Oct 20264:54 pmCall for service11 min9372d79c
Tue 27 Oct 20268:28 amCall for service10 mind6ba4d1b
Tue 27 Oct 202610:49 amCall for service11 min469bfd73

All 9 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. "Metro Classic" 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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