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Wilshire Square

A neighborhood page. 122 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area.

122

drone flights crossed Wilshire Square.

28

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wilshire Square 122 times between 24 June 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

28 of the 28 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; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Wilshire SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

23 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 listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

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

  1. Jun 2026: 3 flights. 3
  2. Jul 2026: 27 flights. 27
  3. Aug 2026: 36 flights. 36
  4. Sep 2026: 28 flights. 28
  5. Oct 2026: 28 flights. 28
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 122 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service93%
  2. Not stated6%
  3. Training and testing2%

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 20269:16 pmCall for service9 min997c3650
Fri 2 Oct 20268:44 amCall for service20 min17fc83bc
Fri 2 Oct 20263:54 pmCall for service13 min5e6447fe
Tue 6 Oct 202610:43 amCall for service13 min9549602b
Wed 7 Oct 20262:29 amCall for service12 min29306a44
Thu 8 Oct 202611:45 amCall for service20 mine69520e8
Fri 9 Oct 202611:02 amCall for service11 mind3ac8c87
Fri 9 Oct 20269:33 pmCall for service15 min5de3dc4c
Fri 9 Oct 202610:57 pmCall for service11 min8d447912
Sun 11 Oct 20266:07 amCall for service8 mine4682500
Mon 12 Oct 202611:37 amCall for service7 min6e4e32a7
Tue 13 Oct 20266:56 amCall for service13 min7757b6f3
Wed 14 Oct 20261:50 pmCall for service15 min9b1fba2e
Wed 14 Oct 20262:59 pmCall for service10 mindea95f50
Fri 16 Oct 20269:34 amCall for service7 min98203a15
Fri 16 Oct 20267:04 pmCall for service8 minba8ce1a6
Sat 17 Oct 20268:33 amCall for service10 min7e61548a
Sat 17 Oct 20261:37 pmCall for service10 minf33e790f
Sat 17 Oct 202611:36 pmCall for service12 minb50d8cb3
Sun 18 Oct 20264:14 amCall for service10 min112803a8
Tue 20 Oct 20264:14 pmCall for service9 min2e3f85d7
Fri 23 Oct 202610:36 amCall for service10 minf3d622b7
Fri 23 Oct 20265:34 pmCall for service17 min61b0e104
Sat 24 Oct 20267:49 amCall for service7 min13ea550f
Mon 26 Oct 20264:19 amCall for service12 minebd89d39
Mon 26 Oct 20261:45 pmCall for service12 min69bf5a47
Mon 26 Oct 20269:48 pmCall for service14 min27e081b8
Tue 27 Oct 20266:13 amCall for service13 min439c3065

All 28 flights in October 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. "Wilshire 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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