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Santa Ana, California

Riverview, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Riverview.

16

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Riverview 16 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

16 of the 16 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.
RiverviewOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

19% 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Not stated6%
  3. Training and testing6%

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 20262:30 pmCall for service14 min7c902243
Thu 3 Sep 20262:35 pmCall for service18 minda9bc2d4
Fri 4 Sep 20266:33 pmCall for service13 minc3d4b4ba
Sat 5 Sep 20261:48 pmCall for service14 minf5ba2c97
Sun 6 Sep 20264:40 amCall for service10 min5a459bed
Wed 9 Sep 20267:16 pmCall for service9 minbd294ec0
Sat 12 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service15 min169b03d8
Sun 13 Sep 20261:27 pmCall for service9 mind51502a3
Mon 14 Sep 20264:06 amNot stated10 min5636f9a2
Fri 18 Sep 20267:36 pmTraining and testing9 mind6567e1d
Sat 19 Sep 20263:15 pmCall for service14 mind06c3ea8
Wed 23 Sep 202610:04 amCall for service15 min15626a9e
Thu 24 Sep 202612:58 pmCall for service16 min0ba02f7d
Fri 25 Sep 20267:58 amCall for service14 minbca3a135
Sun 27 Sep 202610:25 amCall for service7 min000aad83
Tue 29 Sep 20265:34 amCall for service12 minb630c410

All 16 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, 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. "Riverview" 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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