5
drone flights crossed Northwest.
1
of them in October 2026.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Northwest 5 times between 13 July 2026 and 19 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 19 October 2026.
1 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
40% 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 Northwest, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.
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 5 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2026
| Date | Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct 2026 | 5:39 pm | Call for service | 13 min | ad6d26c0 |
All 1 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. "Northwest" 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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