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Santa Ana, California

Thornton Park, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 45 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

45

drone flights crossed Thornton Park.

45

of them in August 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Thornton Park 45 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

45 of the 45 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.
Thornton ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

24% 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 45 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service89%
  2. Not stated7%
  3. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20265:57 amCall for service12 mind8694b3c
Sun 2 Aug 20267:31 pmCall for service13 min43d2881d
Sun 2 Aug 20269:08 pmCall for service7 min1a5faa49
Mon 3 Aug 202610:28 amCall for service15 min6dffbcb3
Tue 4 Aug 202611:34 amCall for service7 min7b06d0b9
Wed 5 Aug 202610:56 amCall for service8 min11f0f965
Wed 5 Aug 20268:40 pmNot stated15 mine82ef24b
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 8 Aug 202610:06 amCall for service18 min6cf9f5eb
Sun 9 Aug 20264:08 pmCall for service13 min586c72a6
Thu 13 Aug 20266:25 pmCall for service8 minc067d16c
Thu 13 Aug 20269:09 pmCall for service6 min80ff9da9
Fri 14 Aug 20267:46 amCall for service9 min901d0899
Fri 14 Aug 20267:17 pmCall for service14 mine639bbba
Fri 14 Aug 20269:26 pmCall for service17 mind870047e
Sat 15 Aug 202611:56 amCall for service17 min4e336ebf
Sat 15 Aug 202611:07 pmCall for service4 min0f1c24ec
Sun 16 Aug 202610:11 amCall for service8 minaa0b1c05
Mon 17 Aug 20266:38 amCall for service15 min4a223c75
Mon 17 Aug 20262:45 pmCall for service6 min1f56bc00
Tue 18 Aug 20261:40 amCall for service13 min0b420e45
Wed 19 Aug 20264:08 pmCall for service11 mina0d7416f
Wed 19 Aug 20268:15 pmTraining and testing7 minf644b607
Wed 19 Aug 20269:32 pmCall for service19 minddb9fe4c
Thu 20 Aug 20261:20 amCall for service15 minf763f85d
Thu 20 Aug 20262:49 pmCall for service12 min171155fc
Thu 20 Aug 20263:17 pmCall for service9 min4e99110a
Sat 22 Aug 20268:41 amCall for service9 min49ec7bf9
Sat 22 Aug 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min801e309f
Sat 22 Aug 20262:25 pmCall for service9 minbb5f0a82
Sun 23 Aug 20268:06 amCall for service10 min7df937f2
Mon 24 Aug 20262:01 pmCall for service12 mind924a4d2
Tue 25 Aug 20263:01 amTraining and testing5 min0e035481
Tue 25 Aug 20263:20 pmCall for service10 min4eab014a
Tue 25 Aug 202610:41 pmCall for service15 min9168d7a9
Tue 25 Aug 202611:35 pmCall for service16 minda83fef7
Thu 27 Aug 20268:14 amCall for service4 min31dcfd3b
Fri 28 Aug 20261:56 amCall for service5 mind184d0a2
Fri 28 Aug 20265:30 pmCall for service10 mined4b8c45
Sat 29 Aug 202610:48 pmCall for service12 min06fce596
Sun 30 Aug 20261:01 amNot stated13 min4f76be99
Mon 31 Aug 20269:07 pmCall for service5 mina68dc24d

All 45 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. "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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