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Santa Ana, California

Shadow Run, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

12

drone flights crossed Shadow Run.

12

of them in September 2026.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Shadow Run 12 times between 4 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

25% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Training and testing17%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 4 Sep 202611:39 amCall for service8 minf66014c9
Sun 6 Sep 20262:53 amCall for service7 min4c09b6d5
Thu 10 Sep 202611:05 pmCall for service16 mindbda2da1
Fri 11 Sep 20268:52 amCall for service10 min991bcc9b
Fri 11 Sep 20261:28 pmCall for service17 mine9bfac9f
Tue 15 Sep 202612:37 pmCall for service9 minc575d79f
Fri 18 Sep 202612:01 amCall for service6 mine3b7aedc
Sat 19 Sep 20266:23 pmTraining and testing5 min8af1fb45
Wed 23 Sep 20263:41 pmCall for service13 mina9fae3e6
Fri 25 Sep 202611:36 amCall for service14 mina712b7ff
Fri 25 Sep 202612:13 pmTraining and testing7 min1229f567
Wed 30 Sep 20263:47 pmCall for service6 mine31f02d2

All 12 flights in September 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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