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Santa Ana, California

Sunwood Central, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Sunwood Central.

16

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunwood Central 16 times between 2 October 2026 and 28 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

16 of the 16 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.
Sunwood CentralOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service100%

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 202610:16 amCall for service9 min0929f095
Sun 4 Oct 20262:33 pmCall for service5 min84a08352
Sun 4 Oct 20268:28 pmCall for service13 minc4b27e92
Tue 6 Oct 20264:04 amCall for service10 min834367d6
Tue 6 Oct 202612:36 pmCall for service15 min556b440f
Fri 9 Oct 20265:51 amCall for service10 min29282ae3
Fri 9 Oct 202612:44 pmCall for service21 min87ab9817
Sat 10 Oct 20263:17 amCall for service8 min1fc2e6f3
Sun 11 Oct 202611:03 pmCall for service8 minf3087a39
Tue 13 Oct 20269:45 pmCall for service10 minb011b4f4
Sun 25 Oct 20265:44 pmCall for service9 min169eec26
Mon 26 Oct 20262:45 pmCall for service9 min15cff51a
Tue 27 Oct 20267:32 amCall for service12 mina69d0d95
Tue 27 Oct 20269:17 amCall for service15 minc6655888
Tue 27 Oct 20264:14 pmCall for service13 minb2e2e029
Wed 28 Oct 20261:17 pmCall for service14 mind912f423

All 16 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. "Sunwood Central" 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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