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Santa Ana, California

Thornton Park, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 38 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

38

drone flights crossed Thornton Park.

38

of them in September 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Thornton Park 38 times between 3 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

38 of the 38 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

8% 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 38 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, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 3 Sep 202611:45 amCall for service15 min95dabcf7
Thu 3 Sep 20264:14 pmCall for service11 min3d07e21c
Fri 4 Sep 20268:20 amCall for service17 min7d50f895
Fri 4 Sep 20267:45 pmCall for service12 min09a0aef4
Sat 5 Sep 20268:19 pmCall for service17 minff066f20
Tue 8 Sep 20261:15 amCall for service12 min15e0185f
Wed 9 Sep 202610:08 amCall for service12 mine6b5816a
Wed 9 Sep 20265:12 pmCall for service7 min54a2d4c8
Wed 9 Sep 20266:31 pmCall for service11 minba46670d
Thu 10 Sep 20262:22 pmCall for service10 minf835483f
Sun 13 Sep 202611:05 amCall for service14 min5d673b13
Sun 13 Sep 202611:57 amCall for service6 minf085c7ac
Mon 14 Sep 20261:37 amCall for service10 min32780f78
Mon 14 Sep 20266:43 amCall for service9 min4ba5146b
Mon 14 Sep 20263:37 pmCall for service15 min009fd432
Tue 15 Sep 202610:46 amCall for service10 min0cd4ef44
Tue 15 Sep 202612:24 pmCall for service11 min81fa3d83
Thu 17 Sep 20269:09 amCall for service9 mind68f677c
Thu 17 Sep 202610:21 amCall for service13 minbd296bb0
Thu 17 Sep 202611:19 pmCall for service7 min18dcc0df
Fri 18 Sep 20261:19 pmCall for service13 minb188d73e
Fri 18 Sep 20262:07 pmCall for service18 min456e8ed4
Fri 18 Sep 20263:15 pmCall for service5 mind7bb35b2
Sun 20 Sep 202612:38 pmCall for service4 min86797028
Mon 21 Sep 20264:34 pmCall for service11 min5ba8a68a
Mon 21 Sep 20265:47 pmCall for service7 mindb9d33d4
Wed 23 Sep 20266:10 pmCall for service11 mind447494f
Thu 24 Sep 20267:15 amCall for service13 min78cdf65b
Thu 24 Sep 20268:51 amCall for service11 minc209d687
Fri 25 Sep 20266:32 amCall for service11 min2c72cdd9
Fri 25 Sep 202611:25 amCall for service6 minba704bc2
Fri 25 Sep 202611:36 amCall for service14 mina712b7ff
Sat 26 Sep 202610:27 amCall for service13 min78e16c03
Sat 26 Sep 20268:38 pmCall for service20 minbc75f1dd
Sun 27 Sep 20269:31 pmCall for service10 mind832ad8c
Mon 28 Sep 20263:08 pmCall for service8 min67724b9e
Tue 29 Sep 20262:28 pmCall for service21 min7233fcd4
Wed 30 Sep 20264:07 pmCall for service8 min911ab20c

All 38 flights in September 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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