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Santa Ana, California

Washington Square, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 21 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

21

drone flights crossed Washington Square.

21

of them in September 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington Square 21 times between 4 September 2026 and 28 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 September 2026.

21 of the 21 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.
Washington SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% 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 21 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Training and testing19%
  3. Not stated10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 4 Sep 20266:22 pmCall for service10 min0fc8898e
Sun 6 Sep 202611:29 pmCall for service15 min172291fb
Mon 7 Sep 20268:23 amCall for service17 min137a5dfd
Tue 8 Sep 20263:25 pmNot stated7 minf2908ff6
Fri 11 Sep 20263:40 amNot stated15 min0e29e064
Fri 11 Sep 202612:57 pmCall for service12 min7d09192b
Fri 11 Sep 20262:05 pmTraining and testing8 min259a7d12
Sat 12 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service15 min169b03d8
Fri 18 Sep 20267:36 pmTraining and testing9 mind6567e1d
Sat 19 Sep 20262:04 pmCall for service10 minae3f2ac8
Sun 20 Sep 202612:22 amCall for service5 min7d6acca3
Fri 25 Sep 202612:35 pmCall for service15 min4716222f
Fri 25 Sep 202612:54 pmCall for service16 mine2f79f36
Fri 25 Sep 20262:03 pmCall for service18 min391e0cff
Sat 26 Sep 20263:17 pmCall for service5 min7c98574b
Sun 27 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service7 mindd070794
Sun 27 Sep 20265:38 pmTraining and testing3 min15b0a422
Sun 27 Sep 20266:16 pmCall for service6 minbe26d5c3
Sun 27 Sep 20267:38 pmCall for service16 min35ccb834
Mon 28 Sep 20265:43 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 sf118c834
Mon 28 Sep 20268:07 pmCall for service9 min61a0ec2e

All 21 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. "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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