10
drone flights crossed Zoo District.
10
of them in August 2026.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Zoo District 10 times between 5 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Santa Ana Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.
2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
30% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, August 2026
| Date | Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 5 Aug 2026 | 3:39 am | Call for service | 17 min | b29cb0ad |
| Sun 9 Aug 2026 | 1:14 pm | Call for service | 10 min | ae55ce7d |
| Tue 11 Aug 2026 | 10:48 am | Call for service | 10 min | 4657c77f |
| Fri 14 Aug 2026 | 1:05 pm | Call for service | 8 min | d5e84fd1 |
| Mon 17 Aug 2026 | 11:23 am | Call for service | 9 min | dfc955f2 |
| Mon 17 Aug 2026 | 11:12 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 0e948f1c |
| Tue 18 Aug 2026 | 3:06 pm | Call for service | 14 min | b20fb248 |
| Sat 29 Aug 2026 | 10:40 am | Call for service | 18 min | 41cf253c |
| Sat 29 Aug 2026 | 10:59 am | Call for service | 12 min | 36a98b63 |
| Mon 31 Aug 2026 | 4:55 am | Call for service | 16 min | e8e5dbfa |
All 10 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. "Zoo District" 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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