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Santa Ana, California

Mid-City, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 36 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

36

drone flights crossed Mid-City.

36

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mid-City 36 times between 2 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

36 of the 36 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.
Mid-CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

7 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 36 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service92%
  2. Not stated8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20267:31 pmCall for service13 min43d2881d
Mon 3 Aug 20269:07 amCall for service6 min12db3e1e
Wed 5 Aug 20269:01 amCall for service19 min47ce5001
Wed 5 Aug 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min4f0b9a74
Wed 5 Aug 20267:50 pmCall for service12 min46477b4b
Thu 6 Aug 20268:30 amCall for service20 minc47b0757
Thu 6 Aug 202610:47 amCall for service8 min5fb5202d
Sat 8 Aug 20262:16 pmCall for service16 mindc9c4fa3
Sat 8 Aug 20268:51 pmCall for service16 min347de642
Sat 8 Aug 20269:58 pmCall for service7 min5c5331fb
Mon 10 Aug 20266:24 amCall for service11 min42753b06
Mon 10 Aug 20269:00 amCall for service16 minfdcae7f3
Mon 10 Aug 20269:41 amCall for service11 min6cc1f804
Mon 10 Aug 20262:43 pmCall for service13 min1e9cd4a0
Tue 11 Aug 202610:34 pmCall for service7 min75e0a1d8
Wed 12 Aug 20267:04 pmCall for service21 min15733407
Wed 12 Aug 20267:29 pmNot stated15 minf57c5956
Sun 16 Aug 202612:02 amCall for service7 mine07c56eb
Sun 16 Aug 20261:37 amCall for service12 min9b8c98e6
Sun 16 Aug 20267:44 amCall for service6 min5a20f104
Sun 16 Aug 20268:08 amCall for service11 min6412a4f7
Sun 16 Aug 202612:43 pmCall for service13 mine13865b8
Sun 16 Aug 20261:31 pmCall for service9 mina21896eb
Tue 18 Aug 20267:58 amCall for service19 minfffb1831
Tue 18 Aug 20261:55 pmCall for service13 min53b14924
Wed 19 Aug 202612:08 amCall for service16 minaa391f47
Fri 21 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service22 mine0632fdd
Sun 23 Aug 20265:19 pmCall for service11 minf1d5e0ce
Mon 24 Aug 20266:08 amNot stated11 min8a137fd9
Mon 24 Aug 202611:03 amCall for service6 mind422285f
Mon 24 Aug 202611:23 amCall for service15 min988de74b
Mon 24 Aug 20264:22 pmCall for service7 min7a5545eb
Mon 24 Aug 202610:56 pmCall for service13 minf6a7a460
Thu 27 Aug 20267:18 amCall for service8 min78a44538
Fri 28 Aug 202611:53 amNot stated15 mincf39306f
Sat 29 Aug 202611:57 amCall for service5 min76ed4c57

All 36 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. "Mid-City" 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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