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Santa Ana, California

Washington Square, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 54 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

54

drone flights crossed Washington Square.

54

of them in July 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington Square 54 times between 1 July 2026 and 30 July 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 July 2026.

54 of the 54 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.
Washington SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

39% 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 54 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service57%
  2. Training and testing33%
  3. Not stated9%

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 202611:55 amCall for service9 minfb9e0680
Thu 2 Jul 20267:50 pmNot stated14 min274336bb
Thu 2 Jul 202611:03 pmNot stated8 mine024ecf5
Fri 3 Jul 202612:58 amNot stated16 mina583a7f8
Fri 3 Jul 20269:15 amCall for service16 minb78edf79
Fri 3 Jul 202611:25 amCall for service8 min6f850884
Fri 3 Jul 202612:49 pmCall for service15 minfe8a0546
Sat 4 Jul 20267:06 pmCall for service20 min769945c8
Sat 4 Jul 20267:40 pmCall for service20 min05209ea9
Sat 4 Jul 20268:18 pmCall for service19 min613f91c1
Sat 4 Jul 20269:53 pmCall for service18 mindc5fb81e
Sat 4 Jul 202610:17 pmCall for service12 min78e11656
Sun 5 Jul 202612:04 amCall for service12 min76b85661
Tue 7 Jul 20269:29 pmCall for service16 mine33e30f8
Wed 8 Jul 20269:31 pmCall for service6 mind83d8016
Thu 9 Jul 20268:38 pmNot stated13 minc1c32828
Thu 9 Jul 202611:57 pmCall for service14 minda02efb2
Fri 10 Jul 20261:06 pmCall for service18 min32468ceb
Sun 12 Jul 202610:33 amCall for service5 min02a8d181
Tue 14 Jul 20265:26 amCall for service17 min13c0d880
Tue 14 Jul 202611:25 amCall for service13 minfb2a92ce
Wed 15 Jul 202610:32 pmTraining and testing3 min38352ec3
Wed 15 Jul 202611:37 pmTraining and testing9 mina797629a
Thu 16 Jul 20265:30 amTraining and testing3 min24e2d7de
Thu 16 Jul 20265:36 amCall for service12 min69e8e977
Thu 16 Jul 202610:55 pmNot stated29 s006ec287
Fri 17 Jul 20261:56 amTraining and testing7 minc402aa51
Fri 17 Jul 20262:04 amTraining and testing8 min4caa1986
Fri 17 Jul 20268:25 amCall for service10 min79811870
Fri 17 Jul 20268:42 amCall for service12 mind85f9cf0
Fri 17 Jul 202610:56 pmTraining and testing7 minaf8d2c9b
Sat 18 Jul 20265:57 amCall for service11 min48b36cb5
Sat 18 Jul 20266:26 amCall for service11 min12aa1db9
Tue 21 Jul 20269:52 amCall for service5 min60a12930
Tue 21 Jul 202611:31 amTraining and testing1 min 09 s541055e4
Tue 21 Jul 20268:35 pmTraining and testing3 mina2f91b2e
Tue 21 Jul 202610:48 pmCall for service18 min264d0650
Tue 21 Jul 202611:11 pmCall for service18 minf3dc3a37
Tue 21 Jul 202611:53 pmCall for service18 min8038547a
Wed 22 Jul 20263:17 pmTraining and testing12 mind5244366
Wed 22 Jul 20263:24 pmTraining and testing8 min9282027c
Wed 22 Jul 20265:40 pmTraining and testing5 min3f327660
Fri 24 Jul 20267:32 amCall for service14 min89cf2f16
Fri 24 Jul 20268:47 amCall for service19 minb5b952e0
Sat 25 Jul 20267:56 amTraining and testing6 min02da354b
Sat 25 Jul 20264:16 pmTraining and testing13 min966d1780
Sat 25 Jul 202610:34 pmTraining and testing3 min5143fae3
Sun 26 Jul 20262:33 amCall for service11 min2614b335
Sun 26 Jul 20267:51 amTraining and testing3 minb2137db3
Mon 27 Jul 20265:08 amTraining and testing3 min3eeb301e
Mon 27 Jul 202612:24 pmCall for service13 minea9cbcdc
Tue 28 Jul 202612:12 pmTraining and testing7 min755a4976
Thu 30 Jul 20268:23 amTraining and testing3 min02ba2c72
Thu 30 Jul 20263:30 pmCall for service13 min9d5d7867

All 54 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. "Washington Square" 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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