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Santa Ana, California

Wilshire Square, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 28 of the 3,170 flights in Santa Ana Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

28

drone flights crossed Wilshire Square.

28

of them in September 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wilshire Square 28 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

28 of the 28 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.
Wilshire SquareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

11% 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 28 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service93%
  2. Not stated4%
  3. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20263:47 pmCall for service7 min8bd94bfb
Fri 4 Sep 20266:46 amCall for service10 min107fa701
Sat 5 Sep 20266:45 pmCall for service7 min9322adec
Sat 5 Sep 202611:13 pmCall for service6 minc798d66b
Sun 6 Sep 202611:16 pmCall for service12 minaefc40a8
Mon 7 Sep 20264:41 pmCall for service9 minc1af360f
Wed 9 Sep 20263:58 pmCall for service10 min2e164fc0
Wed 9 Sep 20265:20 pmCall for service6 min18363935
Wed 9 Sep 20266:54 pmCall for service11 min4aa08fd3
Fri 11 Sep 20261:41 pmNot stated19 min44b75c3c
Sun 13 Sep 202612:38 pmCall for service11 min1f0bcf5d
Mon 14 Sep 20266:53 amTraining and testing5 min4efe1e72
Mon 14 Sep 20267:51 amCall for service6 min28b8e2a2
Mon 14 Sep 20262:22 pmCall for service8 mineeb9396d
Tue 15 Sep 20264:40 pmCall for service7 min00a2019c
Fri 18 Sep 20266:31 amCall for service6 minfe97d187
Fri 18 Sep 20261:39 pmCall for service13 min38cfae27
Sat 19 Sep 20266:03 amCall for service12 min910f1830
Sat 19 Sep 20261:50 pmCall for service9 min39bc9b45
Thu 24 Sep 202612:04 pmCall for service17 min3255542c
Fri 25 Sep 20269:13 amCall for service18 mine64517c3
Fri 25 Sep 202611:10 amCall for service9 min8bf9c592
Fri 25 Sep 202611:36 amCall for service14 mina712b7ff
Fri 25 Sep 202611:20 pmCall for service18 min879e7122
Sun 27 Sep 20263:29 pmCall for service10 min08aeba3a
Mon 28 Sep 20266:31 amCall for service7 mina662ca16
Tue 29 Sep 20262:28 pmCall for service21 min7233fcd4
Wed 30 Sep 202612:32 pmCall for service6 min7dcaf328

All 28 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. "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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