drone flights crossed Metro Classic.

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Metro Classic 6 times between 1 July 2026 and 24 July 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 July 2026.

6 of the 6 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

1 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 6 flights that crossed this area.

Call for service83%
Training and testing17%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

Date	Takeoff (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
Wed 1 Jul 2026	9:06 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`bd60925a`
Fri 3 Jul 2026	1:06 pm	Call for service	10 min	`507d04ad`
Mon 13 Jul 2026	4:17 am	Call for service	11 min	`11eb5425`
Sat 18 Jul 2026	6:50 am	Call for service	9 min	`88d9389f`
Tue 21 Jul 2026	6:20 pm	Call for service	6 min	`48852905`
Fri 24 Jul 2026	2:21 pm	Call for service	13 min	`2c390bdd`

All 6 flights in July 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. "Metro Classic" 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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