Celeste pretty plane, but noisy. Interferes with audio recording, baby sleeping… you name it. And it’s illegal. Why would they be circling around, banking the aircraft to look in our yard?
The aircraft is flying in public airspace, which means you have no expectation of any privacy
incorrect when it violates minimum altitude laws. Very invasive.
try … 14 CFR 91.119 minimum safe altitudes, happy reading!
This aircraft N898DD originated from and appears to be based at Santa Rosa airport. Please contact the Santa Rosa airport manager Jon Stout at 707 565-7243 and file a complaint that the aircraft was flying over a congested area (downtown Petaluma) at less than 1000 Feet above ground level on 3/16 at about 6:45PM. If the owner is a tenant at the airport the airport manager should be able to contact them and encourage them to stop being a nuisance.
hmmm.. I’ll just use my own drone for that. I can’t stop him from taking photos, but he shouldn’t be flying that low and banking the aircraft to look in the backyard. Not cool.
Aircraft Buzzing the Neighborhood
How do you report a loud private airplane interfering with privacy and residential neighborhoods? He came over our house at probably 500 feet a couple times before I could get my camera out. The screenshot shows 750 feet, and even that is illegal.
but still invasive and illegal. Where to report?
I will never get used to low flying aircraft buzzing our house tops. I record music in a home studio, and it ruins the sessions. No airplane should be flying that low over our homes.
I remember seeing this suspicious airplane at dusk when it is harder to judge distances and size. It was flying low and I wondered if it was actually smaller than I thought and a weird type of drone. Some one told me there is actually a guy in Petaluma that builds drone that look like planes. I don't know if this is true. But this incidence sounds like it was definitly a real plane. There was another incident when some one found a camers lens in their yard that had punched right through the eves of the house roof.
Does anyone know what’s going on with all the drones at night? What is so important that these things need to be lingering around after dark?
Yes, absolutely. The city council majority is not listening to the community.
Not serving PetalumaNot serving Petaluma
Outside deep pockets have voice and influence
I think they are elitist and think they know better than everyone else what Petaluma should be. Most of them respond with vitriol to constituents rather than trying understand issues and moving forward as a community. Kinda like the current federal administration.
I agree, I'm not impressed by our City Council's decisions that don't reflect the preferences of at least those I know here in Petaluma.
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City employees spent $2.3 million on City “CalCard” credit cards over the last two fiscal years. That’s $991k in FY23–24 and $1.35M in FY24–25 — over $2.3M total — and the quarterly expense reports that were released to the public don't tell us what those were for.
It looks like there are a few dozen credit cards in circulation assigned to various employees, but the public can only see that payments to the credit card company were made. Residents can’t see what was purchased or how purchases are reviewed and controlled. For a multi-million-dollar spending channel, basic summaries by vendor or category (Amazon, travel, supplies, etc.) seem reasonable.
My husband asked Council about this during public comment last night (1/26/26) and didn’t get an answer. Hoping we can get some more transparency on how these taxpayer dollars are being spent.
