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Santa Ana, California

South Coast

A neighborhood page. 44 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

44

drone flights crossed South Coast.

10

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Coast 44 times between 26 June 2026 and 26 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 26 October 2026.

10 of the 10 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.
South CoastOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

23% 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 South Coast, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jun 2026: 1 flights. 1
  2. Jul 2026: 6 flights. 6
  3. Aug 2026: 13 flights. 13
  4. Sep 2026: 14 flights. 14
  5. Oct 2026: 10 flights. 10
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 44 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service95%
  2. Not stated2%
  3. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20268:21 amCall for service22 mina51d989d
Sun 4 Oct 20268:28 pmCall for service13 minc4b27e92
Tue 6 Oct 20264:04 amCall for service10 min834367d6
Fri 9 Oct 202610:40 pmCall for service12 min5a42ec66
Tue 13 Oct 20269:45 pmCall for service10 minb011b4f4
Tue 20 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service15 minec93c57b
Thu 22 Oct 20266:49 amCall for service12 min974fb103
Sat 24 Oct 20269:07 pmCall for service16 mince052f46
Sun 25 Oct 20265:44 pmCall for service9 min169eec26
Mon 26 Oct 20262:45 pmCall for service9 min15cff51a

All 10 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. "South Coast" 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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