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Santa Ana, California

Willard, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 22 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

22

drone flights crossed Willard.

22

of them in September 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Willard 22 times between 4 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

22 of the 22 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.
WillardOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

5% 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service86%
  2. Training and testing9%
  3. Other5%

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 20264:58 pmCall for service4 min52c4cfec
Mon 7 Sep 20268:23 amCall for service17 min137a5dfd
Mon 7 Sep 20262:54 pmCall for service8 min28210919
Wed 9 Sep 20266:45 pmCall for service9 min6bee62f0
Fri 11 Sep 202610:29 amCall for service6 mine7023e0c
Fri 11 Sep 202612:15 pmCall for service9 minc71f6683
Fri 11 Sep 202612:57 pmCall for service12 min7d09192b
Sun 13 Sep 20269:17 amCall for service4 mine695e2c3
Sat 19 Sep 20265:51 amCall for service10 min8bc4d280
Sat 19 Sep 20262:04 pmCall for service10 minae3f2ac8
Sat 19 Sep 20266:41 pmCall for service12 min9d6ad847
Wed 23 Sep 20265:00 pmCall for service7 min2e7c21e1
Thu 24 Sep 202610:47 amOther13 min82dffbe1
Fri 25 Sep 20263:34 pmCall for service13 min64f9e5eb
Fri 25 Sep 20268:21 pmCall for service13 minc80f6420
Sun 27 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service7 mindd070794
Sun 27 Sep 20263:08 pmCall for service7 minba732151
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
Tue 29 Sep 202611:17 amCall for service9 minb7d6f5b5
Tue 29 Sep 20265:50 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 sc50adae7

All 22 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. "Willard" 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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