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Santa Ana, California

Washington Square, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 30 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

30

drone flights crossed Washington Square.

30

of them in August 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington Square 30 times between 1 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

30 of the 30 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.
Washington SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

20% 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 30 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Training and testing20%
  3. Not stated3%

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 20262:39 pmCall for service17 min8db2802f
Sat 1 Aug 20264:05 pmTraining and testing9 min2a8a66f2
Sun 2 Aug 20268:56 amCall for service11 min4c8691da
Mon 3 Aug 202611:27 pmCall for service10 mind2c68409
Wed 5 Aug 20266:57 amCall for service15 mind8941791
Wed 5 Aug 20267:31 amCall for service12 min48817a31
Wed 5 Aug 202612:17 pmCall for service18 min5e08d4fa
Wed 5 Aug 202610:37 pmNot stated18 min3cc45e71
Fri 7 Aug 202611:48 amTraining and testing4 minb18930a8
Fri 7 Aug 202612:14 pmTraining and testing1 min 40 s466e12dd
Sun 9 Aug 20261:25 amCall for service9 min917c173f
Sun 9 Aug 202610:43 amCall for service15 min6a6d1533
Sun 9 Aug 20263:45 pmCall for service16 minc63113a3
Sun 9 Aug 202611:28 pmCall for service13 min5994c4cc
Thu 13 Aug 202612:55 pmTraining and testing2 min57affa1c
Thu 13 Aug 20269:31 pmCall for service8 min30bff9f0
Sun 16 Aug 20267:23 pmCall for service15 min4bf4b8c5
Sun 16 Aug 20269:32 pmCall for service16 min71562500
Wed 19 Aug 20261:19 pmCall for service18 min96e7fe4a
Wed 19 Aug 20263:15 pmTraining and testing3 minb9cb799b
Wed 19 Aug 20263:30 pmTraining and testing7 minf5490104
Mon 24 Aug 20264:57 amCall for service7 mine2709de7
Mon 24 Aug 202612:03 pmCall for service14 min65fc1cd1
Mon 24 Aug 202611:13 pmCall for service13 mine12dd156
Tue 25 Aug 20268:06 amCall for service4 min67026e10
Tue 25 Aug 20268:13 amCall for service16 mind2093374
Tue 25 Aug 202610:44 amCall for service3 min8a645f9c
Tue 25 Aug 20263:10 pmCall for service9 mind077fa85
Tue 25 Aug 20265:54 pmCall for service14 minbd76e4b6
Sat 29 Aug 20261:36 pmCall for service8 min84f5da38

All 30 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. "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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