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Mid-City

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

170

drone flights crossed Mid-City.

40

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mid-City 170 times between 24 June 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

40 of the 40 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.
Mid-CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

22% 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 Mid-City, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 8
  2. 52
  3. 36
  4. 34
  5. 40
Jun 26Jul 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 170 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service78%
  2. Training and testing13%
  3. Not stated9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:30 amCall for service11 min68f662ab
Thu 1 Oct 20269:16 pmCall for service9 min997c3650
Fri 2 Oct 20262:23 pmCall for service8 minb25a9851
Fri 2 Oct 20265:19 pmCall for service12 min7950c627
Mon 5 Oct 20262:08 pmTraining and testing8 min3d61287c
Wed 7 Oct 20262:29 amCall for service12 min29306a44
Thu 8 Oct 202611:45 amCall for service20 mine69520e8
Fri 9 Oct 20262:27 pmCall for service21 mine6504613
Fri 9 Oct 20268:25 pmCall for service6 minc861107a
Sat 10 Oct 202612:16 amCall for service10 mine22619e0
Sat 10 Oct 20263:18 pmCall for service11 min5d8155b4
Sun 11 Oct 20266:07 amCall for service8 mine4682500
Mon 12 Oct 20269:57 amCall for service9 minccb66b94
Mon 12 Oct 20263:46 pmCall for service9 min54535887
Tue 13 Oct 20262:44 amCall for service14 min6888da6a
Tue 13 Oct 20263:14 amCall for service8 min7c634979
Tue 13 Oct 20266:56 amCall for service13 min7757b6f3
Tue 13 Oct 20268:03 pmCall for service20 minab7ed3d9
Tue 13 Oct 20269:31 pmNot stated6 min52ccf39e
Wed 14 Oct 202610:52 amCall for service6 min2d71224c
Wed 14 Oct 20262:40 pmCall for service9 minc23896ed
Wed 14 Oct 20265:21 pmCall for service12 min276883c2
Thu 15 Oct 20268:44 amCall for service8 min500b486d
Thu 15 Oct 20269:29 amCall for service6 minac91a3bd
Fri 16 Oct 20262:46 pmCall for service10 min2718f76c
Fri 16 Oct 202611:05 pmCall for service14 minf05475d1
Sat 17 Oct 20266:42 pmTraining and testing8 min6222715f
Sat 17 Oct 20267:02 pmTraining and testing8 mind503c974
Sat 17 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service11 min87c89df5
Sun 18 Oct 20263:52 amCall for service19 mincd1f1585
Sun 18 Oct 20264:59 amCall for service8 min43acec4d
Wed 21 Oct 202612:56 pmCall for service12 mina1729091
Fri 23 Oct 202610:36 amCall for service10 minf3d622b7
Sat 24 Oct 20263:33 pmCall for service8 mind5d42ef7
Mon 26 Oct 20264:19 amCall for service12 minebd89d39
Mon 26 Oct 20269:48 pmCall for service14 min27e081b8
Thu 29 Oct 20266:28 amCall for service10 min56eb1eda
Thu 29 Oct 20269:04 amCall for service16 min829f9fac
Thu 29 Oct 20262:31 pmTraining and testing5 min53152497
Thu 29 Oct 20262:40 pmTraining and testing6 mind0d8f525

All 40 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. "Mid-City" 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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