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Santa Ana, California

Shadow Run, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 23 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

23

drone flights crossed Shadow Run.

23

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Shadow Run 23 times between 2 August 2026 and 28 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 August 2026.

23 of the 23 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.
Shadow RunOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

17% 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 23 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service87%
  2. Not stated9%
  3. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20267:31 pmCall for service13 min43d2881d
Wed 5 Aug 20269:01 amCall for service19 min47ce5001
Wed 5 Aug 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min4f0b9a74
Wed 5 Aug 20267:50 pmCall for service12 min46477b4b
Sat 8 Aug 20262:16 pmCall for service16 mindc9c4fa3
Mon 10 Aug 20266:24 amCall for service11 min42753b06
Mon 10 Aug 20262:43 pmCall for service13 min1e9cd4a0
Tue 11 Aug 202611:24 amCall for service9 min4cd475f9
Fri 14 Aug 20264:00 pmCall for service8 min01fefc22
Sun 16 Aug 202612:43 pmCall for service13 mine13865b8
Tue 18 Aug 20267:58 amCall for service19 minfffb1831
Tue 18 Aug 20261:55 pmCall for service13 min53b14924
Thu 20 Aug 20262:49 pmCall for service12 min171155fc
Thu 20 Aug 202610:24 pmCall for service6 minf2ca3424
Fri 21 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service22 mine0632fdd
Sun 23 Aug 20265:19 pmCall for service11 minf1d5e0ce
Mon 24 Aug 20266:08 amNot stated11 min8a137fd9
Mon 24 Aug 202611:03 amCall for service6 mind422285f
Mon 24 Aug 20264:22 pmCall for service7 min7a5545eb
Mon 24 Aug 202610:56 pmCall for service13 minf6a7a460
Tue 25 Aug 20264:02 amTraining and testing9 minadb8fbb8
Thu 27 Aug 20261:53 pmCall for service7 mineb52b743
Fri 28 Aug 202611:53 amNot stated15 mincf39306f

All 23 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. "Shadow Run" 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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