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N225LA — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.

Illustration of LAPD Air Support Division Airbus AS350 N225LA in black and white livery over Los Angeles at dusk.
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LAPD Air Support
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About LAPD Air Support (N225LA)

Operator
Los Angeles Police Department
Aircraft
Eurocopter AS350 B2
Registration
N225LA
Mode S
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Part of the LAPD Air Support Division fleet operating out of Hooper Heliport in downtown Los Angeles. Among the most-flown police helicopters in the United States — LAPD ASD averages dozens of patrol hours per day across the LAPD jurisdiction.

Where LAPD Air Support flies

We have recorded LAPD Air Support over 118 neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Orange counties, 1793 passes in all — most recently over Little Tokyo on 18 October.

Counted from this site's own observations of the public ADS-B feed, not from a flight plan — a pass is a visit we watched, and the list is what we have seen, not everywhere this aircraft has been.

The rest of the LAPD Air Support fleet

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See what is flying directly over your own neighborhood at /here. GTLA AirWatch is an independent tracker; the broadcasters and agencies named on this page are not affiliated with GTLA.

The portrait of N225LA is an AI-generated fleet illustration, derived from the N472LA portrait with this aircraft's registration painted in — not made from photographs of this aircraft. LAPD is not affiliated with GTLA.