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Saddleback View

A neighborhood page. 124 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

124

drone flights crossed Saddleback View.

28

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Saddleback View 124 times between 30 June 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

28 of the 28 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.
Saddleback ViewOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% 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 Saddleback View, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 32
  3. 31
  4. 32
  5. 28
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

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 124 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Training and testing2%
  3. Other2%
  4. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 202612:43 pmCall for service12 min03a2d8fb
Fri 2 Oct 202610:55 pmCall for service10 minc828ecff
Sat 3 Oct 20263:59 pmCall for service9 min0634ec2e
Sun 4 Oct 20266:15 amCall for service12 min7600101f
Sun 4 Oct 20261:46 pmCall for service14 min24860723
Mon 5 Oct 20268:14 amCall for service14 min0018fa9f
Tue 6 Oct 20263:14 amCall for service15 min74f478ad
Thu 8 Oct 20267:48 amCall for service5 min830fc758
Thu 8 Oct 202611:28 amCall for service15 mine732c36d
Thu 8 Oct 20264:37 pmCall for service13 min839d6858
Fri 9 Oct 202611:31 pmCall for service13 min82873780
Sun 11 Oct 202611:42 amCall for service13 mind04d398b
Mon 12 Oct 20264:25 amCall for service15 min50e67101
Mon 12 Oct 202610:17 amCall for service10 min56127a93
Mon 12 Oct 20263:03 pmCall for service13 min69cd9d0e
Tue 13 Oct 20262:14 amCall for service12 min394b8453
Tue 13 Oct 20263:03 amCall for service15 minbb684b1f
Sat 17 Oct 20261:37 pmCall for service10 minf33e790f
Tue 20 Oct 20267:11 amCall for service8 min39f600d6
Tue 20 Oct 20262:38 pmCall for service10 min509841a2
Wed 21 Oct 20264:53 pmCall for service11 min5a996ad4
Sat 24 Oct 202612:42 pmCall for service18 min988f12e1
Sat 24 Oct 20261:04 pmCall for service15 mineb85a382
Sat 24 Oct 20261:24 pmCall for service13 mine069c3cf
Sun 25 Oct 20262:47 pmCall for service5 mine9905756
Tue 27 Oct 202612:09 pmCall for service13 min96f62f40
Tue 27 Oct 20262:55 pmCall for service20 min92ab3aa4
Tue 27 Oct 20264:32 pmCall for service13 min8bdc787a

All 28 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. "Saddleback View" 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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