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Santa Ana, California

New Horizons, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 27 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

27

drone flights crossed New Horizons.

27

of them in September 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed New Horizons 27 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

27 of the 27 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

26% 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 27 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Training and testing30%
  3. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20262:17 amCall for service13 min37798057
Tue 1 Sep 20266:04 pmTraining and testing5 min53c98d31
Tue 1 Sep 20266:33 pmTraining and testing8 min28e9442d
Wed 2 Sep 20266:40 pmCall for service8 mina59c017d
Fri 4 Sep 20269:38 pmCall for service8 min765b65e4
Sun 6 Sep 20262:53 amCall for service7 min4c09b6d5
Mon 7 Sep 20262:25 amCall for service10 min367352a1
Wed 9 Sep 202610:26 amCall for service11 mine7dcdfbd
Wed 9 Sep 202612:02 pmCall for service10 min475e3616
Thu 10 Sep 202611:22 pmTraining and testing4 min9752db56
Fri 11 Sep 20268:15 pmCall for service17 minc9f95073
Fri 11 Sep 202610:51 pmTraining and testing18 mina122a5df
Fri 11 Sep 202611:10 pmTraining and testing14 mine7a20cb3
Sat 12 Sep 202612:16 amTraining and testing9 min5dcc89be
Sun 13 Sep 20266:25 pmTraining and testing5 min3516de0e
Sun 13 Sep 20266:35 pmTraining and testing8 min71e4c251
Tue 15 Sep 20266:27 amCall for service7 min5e9cf73a
Tue 15 Sep 20262:48 pmCall for service12 minf08398b4
Sun 20 Sep 20261:20 pmCall for service6 mineb68a4a6
Fri 25 Sep 202611:00 amCall for service9 min48d65a55
Sat 26 Sep 20265:35 pmCall for service8 min3ea6d2ba
Mon 28 Sep 20262:54 pmCall for service5 min719ea62f
Wed 30 Sep 202610:24 amCall for service11 min7aafffbf
Wed 30 Sep 20262:26 pmCall for service11 min686ce9c5
Wed 30 Sep 20263:12 pmCall for service11 mind9b48edb
Wed 30 Sep 20263:47 pmCall for service6 mine31f02d2
Wed 30 Sep 20268:10 pmNot stated12 min25740b89

All 27 flights in September 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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