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Santa Ana, California

South Coast, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 13 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

13

drone flights crossed South Coast.

13

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Coast 13 times between 3 August 2026 and 25 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 August 2026.

13 of the 13 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.
South CoastOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 13 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service85%
  2. Not stated8%
  3. Training and testing8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 202610:28 amCall for service15 min6dffbcb3
Thu 6 Aug 202610:10 amCall for service17 minbfc81a78
Thu 6 Aug 20261:17 pmNot stated9 min8b091701
Fri 7 Aug 20265:40 pmCall for service12 mina493e361
Fri 7 Aug 202610:01 pmCall for service13 minee7fc47b
Sat 8 Aug 20268:17 amCall for service10 min11d7d8eb
Sat 15 Aug 202611:56 amCall for service17 min4e336ebf
Mon 17 Aug 20266:38 amCall for service15 min4a223c75
Tue 18 Aug 20261:40 amCall for service13 min0b420e45
Wed 19 Aug 20268:15 pmTraining and testing7 minf644b607
Sat 22 Aug 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min801e309f
Mon 24 Aug 20262:01 pmCall for service12 mind924a4d2
Tue 25 Aug 202611:35 pmCall for service16 minda83fef7

All 13 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. "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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