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Santa Ana, California

Wilshire Square, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 27 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

27

drone flights crossed Wilshire Square.

27

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wilshire Square 27 times between 3 July 2026 and 27 July 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 July 2026.

27 of the 27 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.
Wilshire SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

41% 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 27 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service81%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Jul 202611:23 pmNot stated9 min21e22083
Sun 5 Jul 202612:22 amCall for service19 min9f796ef0
Wed 8 Jul 20262:17 pmCall for service11 min89414c96
Thu 9 Jul 20268:38 pmNot stated13 minc1c32828
Thu 9 Jul 202611:57 pmCall for service14 minda02efb2
Fri 10 Jul 20262:59 pmCall for service9 min23a319d3
Fri 10 Jul 20263:38 pmCall for service6 minb9d74b82
Fri 10 Jul 20266:19 pmCall for service21 min03cc4c88
Sun 12 Jul 20267:39 pmCall for service6 min1dc0613d
Sun 12 Jul 20268:16 pmCall for service12 min4fa3a3e6
Sun 12 Jul 202611:36 pmCall for service7 min14be0853
Mon 13 Jul 20268:20 pmCall for service9 min6a22694a
Tue 14 Jul 20261:16 pmCall for service10 minff70c5f9
Tue 14 Jul 20267:41 pmNot stated6 min6027ba59
Wed 15 Jul 202612:36 amCall for service4 minfc761c1c
Wed 15 Jul 20263:38 amCall for service18 min69b25931
Fri 17 Jul 20264:03 amNot stated13 minc235307d
Sun 19 Jul 20263:24 amCall for service21 minb1b3399f
Sun 19 Jul 20266:33 pmCall for service6 min21e6766f
Tue 21 Jul 20263:10 amCall for service8 min5b08e4dc
Wed 22 Jul 20267:36 pmTraining and testing8 min594e88a2
Wed 22 Jul 202610:52 pmCall for service10 min57990665
Thu 23 Jul 20264:00 pmCall for service22 min6f003bcb
Thu 23 Jul 20265:45 pmCall for service12 min9b461b8b
Fri 24 Jul 20266:18 amCall for service9 minfafb4e21
Mon 27 Jul 20262:55 amCall for service10 min3b959a6c
Mon 27 Jul 20267:25 amCall for service10 min88bd10e8

All 27 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. "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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