9
drone flights over Cottonwood that day.
5:48 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:06 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Cottonwood police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 18 April 2026, the first at 5:48 am and the last at 10:06 pm MST, by Cottonwood Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.
| Takeoff (MST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:48 am | Not stated | 26 min | CPD-2604 |
| 6:21 am | Not stated | 4 min | CPD-2604 |
| 6:30 am | Not stated | 12 min | CPD-2604 |
| 6:51 am | Not stated | 7 min | CPD-2604 |
| 7:10 am | Not stated | 24 min | CPD-2604 |
| 12:19 pm | Not stated | 5 min | CPD-2604 |
| 7:16 pm | Not stated | 9 min | CPD-2604 |
| 7:50 pm | Not stated | 25 min | CPD-2604 |
| 10:06 pm | Not stated | 29 min | CPD-2604 |
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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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