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Santa Ana, California

Washington Square

A neighborhood page. 149 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

149

drone flights crossed Washington Square.

37

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington Square 149 times between 9 June 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

34 of the 34 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, minus its first and last 200 m.
Washington SquareOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

23% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

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

  1. 7
  2. 54
  3. 30
  4. 21
  5. 37
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 149 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service66%
  2. Training and testing27%
  3. Not stated7%

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 202611:42 amTraining and testing7 mind04556df
Fri 2 Oct 20265:19 pmCall for service12 min7950c627
Sat 3 Oct 20262:47 pmCall for service9 min233d2641
Sun 4 Oct 202612:24 pmCall for service5 min7f9c4a5f
Mon 5 Oct 20266:39 amCall for service9 min18722e75
Mon 5 Oct 202611:35 amCall for service11 min0cf7f326
Mon 5 Oct 20261:42 pmCall for service13 min0d026e40
Mon 5 Oct 20261:55 pmCall for service8 min5d8a7144
Mon 5 Oct 20266:12 pmTraining and testing39 sb7d3a858
Tue 6 Oct 20266:11 amCall for service6 min6aa4a781
Tue 6 Oct 20266:35 amCall for service16 minf9f75a0a
Wed 7 Oct 20264:03 pmCall for service15 minaa536dc2
Wed 7 Oct 20268:38 pmCall for service14 min59676b53
Fri 9 Oct 20264:04 pmTraining and testing5 min1d784126
Sat 10 Oct 202612:15 pmCall for service9 min2c9d2c2c
Sat 10 Oct 20261:39 pmNot stated19 minc6411e9e
Sat 10 Oct 20262:21 pmCall for service9 mind9cca935
Mon 12 Oct 20268:44 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 s02a09cf7
Tue 13 Oct 20262:14 amCall for service12 min394b8453
Tue 13 Oct 20263:24 amCall for service16 minb4e3751c
Wed 14 Oct 202610:35 amCall for service12 min5183077c
Wed 14 Oct 20265:21 pmCall for service12 min276883c2
Thu 15 Oct 20265:23 pmCall for service4 min006a6cf6
Thu 15 Oct 20267:51 pmTraining and testing30 sacf2b54b
Thu 15 Oct 20268:08 pmNot stated3 min9bc60ae9
Tue 20 Oct 20264:24 pmCall for service14 minb8388e52
Wed 21 Oct 20263:22 amCall for service10 mina41059c4
Wed 21 Oct 202611:41 amCall for service8 min9e1c454f
Thu 22 Oct 20261:33 pmCall for service16 min733b726c
Thu 22 Oct 20266:53 pmTraining and testing9 mindcf0e366
Fri 23 Oct 20266:30 amCall for service11 min5067293c
Sat 24 Oct 202612:42 pmCall for service18 min988f12e1
Sat 24 Oct 20264:57 pmCall for service10 mind3159177
Sun 25 Oct 202610:19 amCall for service6 min173c003e
Mon 26 Oct 202611:38 pmTraining and testing2 mine37e8d28
Tue 27 Oct 20266:13 amCall for service13 min439c3065
Tue 27 Oct 20264:32 pmCall for service13 min8bdc787a

All 37 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Washington Square" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Santa Ana (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "PDDL-1.0", in the place layer file for Santa Ana.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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