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Santa Anita

A neighborhood page. 246 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

246

drone flights crossed Santa Anita.

51

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Santa Anita 246 times between 26 June 2026 and 28 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

51 of the 51 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 AnitaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

22% 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 Santa Anita, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jun 2026: 1 flights. 1
  2. Jul 2026: 63 flights. 63
  3. Aug 2026: 74 flights. 74
  4. Sep 2026: 57 flights. 57
  5. Oct 2026: 51 flights. 51
Jun 26Jul 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 246 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service92%
  2. Not stated5%
  3. Training and testing3%
  4. Other0%

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 20262:29 pmCall for service8 min75608b4f
Thu 1 Oct 202610:29 pmCall for service16 minafa6fc72
Fri 2 Oct 20264:02 amCall for service16 mind4d11be4
Fri 2 Oct 20269:16 amCall for service20 min9dedb4e6
Fri 2 Oct 20262:37 pmCall for service22 min9a41e11b
Fri 2 Oct 20263:01 pmCall for service18 min5f3d6059
Fri 2 Oct 20269:58 pmCall for service13 min2dc25316
Sat 3 Oct 20262:15 amTraining and testing5 mine18856ae
Sat 3 Oct 20261:07 pmCall for service19 min88933160
Sun 4 Oct 20267:03 amCall for service14 min6fe5da12
Sun 4 Oct 20265:01 pmCall for service9 min5396e661
Sun 4 Oct 20269:20 pmCall for service23 min3cd0a520
Mon 5 Oct 20263:03 amCall for service21 mina9b89f74
Mon 5 Oct 20264:10 amCall for service21 min9abb9b2d
Wed 7 Oct 20266:39 amCall for service23 min4e12caee
Wed 7 Oct 20267:03 amCall for service15 min69e03174
Wed 7 Oct 20265:08 pmCall for service9 min94660148
Sat 10 Oct 20262:36 pmCall for service14 mindea90635
Sat 10 Oct 20266:49 pmCall for service7 min374818c8
Sat 10 Oct 20268:34 pmCall for service7 min7d97bef6
Sat 10 Oct 20269:56 pmCall for service10 min64fefcbf
Sun 11 Oct 20267:23 pmCall for service18 mina8dbf219
Sun 11 Oct 202611:41 pmCall for service11 min7b9a8260
Mon 12 Oct 20262:23 amCall for service10 min72ffd33f
Mon 12 Oct 202612:51 pmCall for service11 min9fc466a3
Mon 12 Oct 20261:03 pmCall for service13 mine9c4044e
Mon 12 Oct 20261:25 pmTraining and testing5 min8e8eea88
Mon 12 Oct 20261:33 pmCall for service13 min89ce93ca
Mon 12 Oct 20264:20 pmCall for service10 minad499d08
Mon 12 Oct 20265:35 pmCall for service18 min0453a30b
Mon 12 Oct 202611:32 pmCall for service10 min7d368381
Tue 13 Oct 202612:01 amCall for service20 min8e8e9a3d
Tue 13 Oct 20265:09 amCall for service10 minee4d8eef
Wed 14 Oct 202610:35 amCall for service12 min5183077c
Sat 17 Oct 202612:01 pmCall for service15 mine9714bd8
Sat 17 Oct 20261:53 pmCall for service12 minb30078f1
Tue 20 Oct 20263:26 amCall for service13 min6972c206
Thu 22 Oct 20263:20 pmCall for service20 minbcdb87d7
Fri 23 Oct 20266:30 amCall for service11 min5067293c
Sat 24 Oct 202611:43 amCall for service7 min53d682d7
Sat 24 Oct 20264:57 pmCall for service10 mind3159177
Sat 24 Oct 20269:01 pmCall for service6 minfd1e5fed
Sat 24 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service15 minb02f10ff
Sun 25 Oct 20264:46 pmCall for service5 minea7eacaf
Mon 26 Oct 202610:52 amCall for service11 minf3367f61
Mon 26 Oct 20264:46 pmCall for service14 minc77e3c5e
Tue 27 Oct 20268:07 amCall for service14 min4283394f
Tue 27 Oct 202611:17 amCall for service12 min03fe4284
Wed 28 Oct 20262:38 pmCall for service19 mine0ef9c5f
Wed 28 Oct 20263:17 pmCall for service5 min5fe99e38
Wed 28 Oct 20263:25 pmCall for service11 min0c37f162

All 51 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 Anita" 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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