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Portola Park

A neighborhood page. 22 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

22

drone flights crossed Portola Park.

4

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Portola Park 22 times between 8 July 2026 and 28 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

4 of the 4 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
Portola ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

32% 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 Portola Park, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jul 2026: 5 flights. 5
  2. Aug 2026: 2 flights. 2
  3. Sep 2026: 11 flights. 11
  4. Oct 2026: 4 flights. 4
Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service91%
  2. Training and testing5%
  3. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 9 Oct 202611:31 pmCall for service13 min82873780
Sun 11 Oct 202611:42 amCall for service13 mind04d398b
Tue 20 Oct 20266:05 amCall for service8 minb98aac25
Wed 28 Oct 20268:14 pmCall for service18 mina43efd4f

All 4 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, 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. "Portola Park" 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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