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Santa Ana, California

Thornton Park, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

29

drone flights crossed Thornton Park.

29

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Thornton Park 29 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

21% 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 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service93%
  2. Training and testing3%
  3. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 20269:06 pmTraining and testing19 minbd60925a
Fri 3 Jul 20261:06 pmCall for service10 min507d04ad
Fri 3 Jul 20269:46 pmNot stated5 mine7da5571
Sun 5 Jul 202612:10 amCall for service19 min0f7499b0
Tue 7 Jul 202611:52 amCall for service7 min0f5fb529
Tue 7 Jul 20265:29 pmCall for service16 min859479f2
Wed 8 Jul 202611:13 pmCall for service9 minb932eefa
Thu 9 Jul 20264:22 pmCall for service16 min25c244b1
Fri 10 Jul 20261:56 pmCall for service21 min626bb1a0
Sun 12 Jul 20268:48 pmCall for service19 minbe90b433
Mon 13 Jul 20264:17 amCall for service11 min11eb5425
Mon 13 Jul 20264:14 pmCall for service7 min0f102dcb
Tue 14 Jul 202612:07 amCall for service13 mineb6e9a3d
Tue 14 Jul 202611:36 pmCall for service7 minac3436f3
Thu 16 Jul 20263:29 pmCall for service20 minc1630e17
Fri 17 Jul 20266:25 amCall for service11 min0b5e519f
Sat 18 Jul 20266:50 amCall for service9 min88d9389f
Sat 18 Jul 20268:54 pmCall for service8 minc8612e7c
Sun 19 Jul 202612:18 amCall for service13 min97e284f2
Mon 20 Jul 20268:39 amCall for service8 minfb7a3bba
Tue 21 Jul 20266:20 pmCall for service6 min48852905
Tue 21 Jul 20269:21 pmCall for service16 min95acc806
Wed 22 Jul 202611:28 amCall for service13 min783857bc
Thu 23 Jul 202611:54 amCall for service8 min9a573a72
Fri 24 Jul 20262:21 pmCall for service13 min2c390bdd
Thu 30 Jul 20266:40 amCall for service10 minf58ab940
Thu 30 Jul 20267:24 amCall for service10 min980ee743
Thu 30 Jul 20268:58 pmCall for service6 min19bd78f1
Fri 31 Jul 20266:27 amCall for service5 minabf31936

All 29 flights in July 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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