N957LA — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.
N957LA is one of the Sheriff's Department Aero Bureau's patrol A-Stars — the single-engine helicopters that fly the county's everyday patrol shifts over unincorporated Los Angeles County and the cities that contract with the Sheriff for policing. The FAA registers it to the County of Los Angeles. A 2012 photograph shows it in the Sheriff's green and cream, which is the paint its fleet portrait follows.
We have recorded Sheriff Air Support over 117 neighborhoods across Southern California, 851 passes in all — most recently over Signal Hill on 2 September.
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.
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 Sheriff Air Support is an AI-generated fleet illustration, made from photographs of the real aircraft; markings follow the photographed livery. LASD is not affiliated with GTLA.