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Santa Ana, California

Saddleback View, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 31 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

31

drone flights crossed Saddleback View.

31

of them in August 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Saddleback View 31 times between 3 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

13% 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service97%
  2. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 202612:00 pmCall for service9 mindcd176d5
Tue 4 Aug 20265:46 pmCall for service11 min57079824
Fri 7 Aug 202612:36 pmCall for service20 mineb8a93e7
Sun 9 Aug 20261:14 pmCall for service10 minae55ce7d
Mon 10 Aug 202611:22 amCall for service7 mina42d5536
Tue 11 Aug 20263:55 amCall for service18 min0b4a36c2
Tue 11 Aug 20265:51 amCall for service17 minad3c3873
Tue 11 Aug 20268:08 amCall for service22 min9883f92e
Tue 11 Aug 202610:48 amCall for service10 min4657c77f
Tue 11 Aug 202612:37 pmCall for service13 min734ac100
Thu 13 Aug 20268:23 amCall for service13 min7d40630d
Thu 13 Aug 202611:28 amCall for service9 min979d1c0a
Thu 13 Aug 20266:35 pmCall for service7 min48f85d31
Thu 13 Aug 20268:42 pmCall for service7 min17fcb164
Fri 14 Aug 20261:05 pmCall for service8 mind5e84fd1
Sat 15 Aug 20261:27 pmCall for service11 minf8ab29fd
Sat 15 Aug 20262:07 pmCall for service13 min39b80bb7
Mon 17 Aug 20269:00 amCall for service14 min4ddc3ae8
Mon 17 Aug 20262:09 pmCall for service8 min5453daa4
Mon 17 Aug 20263:09 pmCall for service9 min2d992ca4
Mon 17 Aug 202611:12 pmCall for service16 min0e948f1c
Tue 18 Aug 20263:06 pmCall for service14 minb20fb248
Thu 20 Aug 202610:59 amCall for service11 min55d14711
Thu 20 Aug 202611:19 amCall for service8 min3c56e12f
Fri 21 Aug 20269:28 pmTraining and testing6 min4310948e
Wed 26 Aug 20264:00 pmCall for service14 mind943cce0
Sat 29 Aug 202610:40 amCall for service18 min41cf253c
Sat 29 Aug 202610:59 amCall for service12 min36a98b63
Sun 30 Aug 20268:52 pmCall for service11 mind8185399
Mon 31 Aug 20264:55 amCall for service16 mine8e5dbfa
Mon 31 Aug 20267:37 amCall for service7 min299b45be

All 31 flights in August 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. "Saddleback View" 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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