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Santa Ana, California

Wilshire Square, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 36 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

36

drone flights crossed Wilshire Square.

36

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wilshire Square 36 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

36 of the 36 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.
Wilshire SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

25% 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 36 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Not stated6%

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 202611:28 amCall for service5 min7f2dcb83
Mon 3 Aug 20269:52 amCall for service3 min94fe76bc
Mon 3 Aug 202610:04 amCall for service17 mina4d4ab72
Wed 5 Aug 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min4f0b9a74
Wed 5 Aug 20266:10 pmCall for service6 min5791d50c
Fri 7 Aug 20262:58 amCall for service8 min6a19a745
Fri 7 Aug 20266:36 amCall for service15 min02c7aa4f
Sat 8 Aug 202611:39 amCall for service5 min54338ceb
Sun 9 Aug 20269:01 amCall for service10 minc6e06ee4
Sun 9 Aug 202610:01 amCall for service12 min98283b16
Sun 9 Aug 20265:52 pmCall for service6 mindc391de4
Sun 9 Aug 20266:26 pmCall for service14 minfa6b565d
Mon 10 Aug 20266:36 amCall for service8 minb04a950b
Mon 10 Aug 20262:43 pmCall for service13 min1e9cd4a0
Tue 11 Aug 20261:29 pmCall for service8 min4f743f47
Wed 12 Aug 20264:09 pmCall for service13 min22f17d35
Wed 12 Aug 20267:04 pmCall for service21 min15733407
Wed 12 Aug 20267:29 pmNot stated15 minf57c5956
Thu 13 Aug 202610:38 amCall for service14 min338901d3
Thu 13 Aug 202610:55 amCall for service12 min147e1754
Sun 16 Aug 20269:01 amCall for service8 mind171f21c
Mon 17 Aug 202611:01 amCall for service9 mindffb52e1
Tue 18 Aug 20262:21 pmCall for service15 min781a6b0d
Wed 19 Aug 202612:08 amCall for service16 minaa391f47
Wed 19 Aug 20265:07 amCall for service15 min4645709a
Wed 19 Aug 20266:46 pmCall for service6 min4a3e5d77
Sat 22 Aug 20264:52 amCall for service11 min04685527
Sat 22 Aug 20266:15 amCall for service10 min5cc64ce4
Sat 22 Aug 202610:33 pmCall for service12 min99a645f4
Mon 24 Aug 202610:56 pmCall for service13 minf6a7a460
Tue 25 Aug 20261:00 amCall for service17 min3795e54d
Tue 25 Aug 20264:53 amCall for service20 min43f935ab
Thu 27 Aug 20267:18 amCall for service8 min78a44538
Fri 28 Aug 202611:53 amNot stated15 mincf39306f
Sat 29 Aug 20264:10 amCall for service5 mincc68e056
Mon 31 Aug 20264:16 pmCall for service6 min3742b092

All 36 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. "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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