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Santa Ana, California

New Horizons, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 26 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

26

drone flights crossed New Horizons.

26

of them in August 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed New Horizons 26 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.

26 of the 26 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.
New HorizonsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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 26 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service92%
  2. Training and testing4%
  3. Not stated4%

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 20267:28 amCall for service6 mindce44e08
Sun 2 Aug 202610:58 amCall for service14 min423729b8
Thu 6 Aug 202611:35 pmTraining and testing17 min914f0f09
Fri 7 Aug 202610:17 amCall for service5 minb39cf372
Fri 7 Aug 202610:29 amCall for service5 min8bab2d9b
Fri 7 Aug 20261:15 pmCall for service11 min7d0670f9
Fri 7 Aug 20268:03 pmCall for service12 min37317aeb
Sun 9 Aug 20266:40 amCall for service11 mina6ded827
Sun 9 Aug 202610:43 amCall for service15 min6a6d1533
Sun 9 Aug 202612:16 pmCall for service9 minc4caf01e
Sun 9 Aug 20264:50 pmCall for service8 minf9e02f67
Mon 10 Aug 20266:24 amCall for service11 min42753b06
Mon 10 Aug 20267:05 amCall for service7 min87c63d5d
Tue 11 Aug 20264:14 amCall for service9 min652edcd1
Tue 11 Aug 202610:34 pmCall for service7 min75e0a1d8
Fri 14 Aug 20265:28 pmCall for service6 min046622f8
Sat 15 Aug 20266:42 pmCall for service5 min6c27cf7a
Sun 16 Aug 20261:31 pmCall for service9 mina21896eb
Sun 16 Aug 20261:50 pmCall for service9 mine656d422
Tue 18 Aug 20261:55 pmCall for service13 min53b14924
Thu 20 Aug 20269:15 amCall for service12 min54bd6177
Sat 22 Aug 20261:45 pmCall for service11 mine390f4df
Mon 24 Aug 20266:08 amNot stated11 min8a137fd9
Mon 24 Aug 202611:03 amCall for service6 mind422285f
Mon 24 Aug 20263:11 pmCall for service8 minaeeb6aa2
Sat 29 Aug 20261:09 pmCall for service7 minb4f7066f

All 26 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. "New Horizons" 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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