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Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana Triangle, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Santa Ana Triangle.

17

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Santa Ana Triangle 17 times between 1 October 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

17 of the 17 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.
Santa Ana TriangleOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

35% 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 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Training and testing6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202611:21 amCall for service8 min7f960222
Thu 1 Oct 20262:16 pmCall for service12 min287bd843
Sun 4 Oct 20265:37 pmTraining and testing42 sf3764093
Mon 5 Oct 20266:39 amCall for service9 min18722e75
Mon 5 Oct 20261:22 pmCall for service12 min232e81f6
Mon 5 Oct 20261:42 pmCall for service13 min0d026e40
Sat 10 Oct 20266:08 amCall for service15 min32dc2d51
Sun 11 Oct 20266:19 pmCall for service7 mina68c493f
Tue 13 Oct 20261:41 amCall for service8 mina9001269
Tue 13 Oct 20262:14 amCall for service12 min394b8453
Tue 13 Oct 20263:24 amCall for service16 minb4e3751c
Sat 17 Oct 202610:44 amCall for service12 minf6bbb45a
Thu 22 Oct 20261:33 pmCall for service16 min733b726c
Mon 26 Oct 20262:26 amCall for service16 minc38a7126
Mon 26 Oct 20269:26 pmCall for service20 min197b5ab2
Tue 27 Oct 202612:58 amCall for service20 min7f118fe1
Tue 27 Oct 20264:20 amCall for service16 minb3e9949f

All 17 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. "Santa Ana Triangle" 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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