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Thornton Park

A neighborhood page. 157 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

157

drone flights crossed Thornton Park.

39

of them in October 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Thornton Park 157 times between 21 May 2026 and 28 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

39 of the 39 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.
Thornton ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

30 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Thornton Park, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. May 2026: 1 flights. 1
  2. Jun 2026: 5 flights. 5
  3. Jul 2026: 29 flights. 29
  4. Aug 2026: 45 flights. 45
  5. Sep 2026: 38 flights. 38
  6. Oct 2026: 39 flights. 39
May 26Jun 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 157 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Not stated4%
  3. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:04 amCall for service24 min4454d26a
Thu 1 Oct 20266:30 amCall for service11 min68f662ab
Fri 2 Oct 20268:21 amCall for service22 mina51d989d
Fri 2 Oct 202610:16 amCall for service9 min0929f095
Sat 3 Oct 20267:15 pmCall for service6 min86eb08fe
Sun 4 Oct 202611:18 amCall for service4 min2fb82b33
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 202611:35 amCall for service19 min7b37f06e
Tue 6 Oct 202612:36 pmCall for service15 min556b440f
Thu 8 Oct 20262:30 amCall for service3 min613cfc5e
Thu 8 Oct 20269:43 amCall for service6 minbd992cc4
Thu 8 Oct 202611:18 amCall for service10 min6884593c
Fri 9 Oct 20265:51 amCall for service10 min29282ae3
Fri 9 Oct 202611:14 amCall for service7 min319f6c7e
Fri 9 Oct 202612:44 pmCall for service21 min87ab9817
Fri 9 Oct 20261:10 pmCall for service4 min730c78e6
Fri 9 Oct 202610:40 pmCall for service12 min5a42ec66
Sat 10 Oct 20263:17 amCall for service8 min1fc2e6f3
Sun 11 Oct 20269:13 amCall for service5 min1ec61e06
Sun 11 Oct 20269:29 pmCall for service16 min97d4f46f
Sun 11 Oct 202611:03 pmCall for service8 minf3087a39
Tue 13 Oct 20269:45 pmCall for service10 minb011b4f4
Thu 15 Oct 20266:37 amCall for service11 min518af393
Sat 17 Oct 20266:16 amCall for service16 min8014bb9d
Tue 20 Oct 20264:54 pmCall for service11 min9372d79c
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 20264:55 pmCall for service13 min7f95c66c
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 20268:28 amCall for service10 mind6ba4d1b
Tue 27 Oct 20269:17 amCall for service15 minc6655888
Tue 27 Oct 202610:49 amCall for service11 min469bfd73
Tue 27 Oct 20264:14 pmCall for service13 minb2e2e029
Wed 28 Oct 20261:17 pmCall for service14 mind912f423

All 39 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. "Thornton Park" 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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