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Santa Ana, California

Metro Classic, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Metro Classic.

9

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Metro Classic 9 times between 6 October 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

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

11% 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 9 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, 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, 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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