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Santa Ana, California

Pico-Lowell, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 40 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

40

drone flights crossed Pico-Lowell.

40

of them in September 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Pico-Lowell 40 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.

40 of the 40 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.
Pico-LowellOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

38% 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service85%
  2. Training and testing12%
  3. Not stated2%

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 20262:34 amCall for service14 mind2b03ff8
Tue 1 Sep 20263:27 amCall for service15 minaafb54cd
Tue 1 Sep 20266:04 pmTraining and testing5 min53c98d31
Tue 1 Sep 20266:33 pmTraining and testing8 min28e9442d
Thu 3 Sep 20268:24 amNot stated7 mina59fbe2f
Fri 4 Sep 202611:08 pmCall for service10 min71fe06b3
Wed 9 Sep 202612:17 amCall for service15 minbba3c304
Wed 9 Sep 20266:54 pmCall for service11 min4aa08fd3
Fri 11 Sep 20262:24 amCall for service14 min55eb8fea
Sat 12 Sep 20267:19 amCall for service21 min02e548cd
Sun 13 Sep 20267:58 amCall for service6 mine06cfc42
Sun 13 Sep 20263:23 pmCall for service5 minf1237c78
Sun 13 Sep 20266:25 pmTraining and testing5 min3516de0e
Sun 13 Sep 20266:35 pmTraining and testing8 min71e4c251
Mon 14 Sep 20262:22 pmCall for service8 mineeb9396d
Tue 15 Sep 20261:30 amCall for service14 minc8e14c9c
Tue 15 Sep 20262:04 amCall for service11 minf3af13c1
Tue 15 Sep 20262:44 amCall for service14 min809f8cd2
Tue 15 Sep 20262:59 amCall for service9 min0f573e2f
Tue 15 Sep 20263:11 amCall for service1 min 12 s562e20c0
Tue 15 Sep 20263:27 amCall for service35 sd8fdbaab
Tue 15 Sep 20268:58 amCall for service5 minfb741719
Sat 19 Sep 20266:03 amCall for service12 min910f1830
Sat 19 Sep 20268:46 pmCall for service5 minadfdf321
Mon 21 Sep 20266:08 pmCall for service21 minbd287ce4
Tue 22 Sep 20262:55 pmCall for service23 min295bc036
Thu 24 Sep 202612:04 pmCall for service17 min3255542c
Fri 25 Sep 202611:00 amCall for service9 min48d65a55
Fri 25 Sep 202611:36 amCall for service14 mina712b7ff
Fri 25 Sep 202612:13 pmTraining and testing7 min1229f567
Fri 25 Sep 202611:20 pmCall for service18 min879e7122
Sat 26 Sep 202612:40 amCall for service10 mina9a50dea
Sun 27 Sep 20266:07 pmCall for service6 min06ef5e5b
Mon 28 Sep 20263:23 amCall for service18 min407154e0
Mon 28 Sep 20263:24 pmCall for service5 min0d053135
Tue 29 Sep 20263:41 amCall for service15 mind36ee960
Tue 29 Sep 20266:40 amCall for service7 min2f0443f5
Tue 29 Sep 20262:08 pmCall for service4 min98aed20b
Wed 30 Sep 202612:41 pmCall for service11 min2a68cb03
Wed 30 Sep 20263:58 pmCall for service5 min831aff94

All 40 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. "Pico-Lowell" 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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