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Santa Ana, California

Metro Classic, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Metro Classic.

11

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Metro Classic 11 times between 1 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

11 of the 11 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.
Metro ClassicOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

36% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service100%

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 20265:57 amCall for service12 mind8694b3c
Mon 3 Aug 202610:28 amCall for service15 min6dffbcb3
Wed 5 Aug 202610:56 amCall for service8 min11f0f965
Thu 6 Aug 202610:10 amCall for service17 minbfc81a78
Sat 15 Aug 202611:56 amCall for service17 min4e336ebf
Wed 19 Aug 20269:32 pmCall for service19 minddb9fe4c
Sat 22 Aug 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min801e309f
Mon 24 Aug 20262:01 pmCall for service12 mind924a4d2
Tue 25 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service15 min9168d7a9
Fri 28 Aug 20261:56 amCall for service5 mind184d0a2
Sat 29 Aug 202610:48 pmCall for service12 min06fce596

All 11 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. "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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