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Cottonwood, Arizona · one day

Thursday 21 May 2026

11 drone flights from Cottonwood Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Cottonwood that day.

12:39 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

26 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cottonwood police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 21 May 2026, the first at 12:39 am and the last at 11:25 pm MST, by Cottonwood Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

11 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:39 amNot stated26 minCPD-2605
1:06 amNot stated19 minCPD-2605
2:41 amNot stated30 minCPD-2605
6:09 amNot stated27 minCPD-2605
6:36 amNot stated28 minCPD-2605
3:13 pmNot stated19 minCPD-2605
3:36 pmNot stated26 minCPD-2605
8:45 pmNot stated3 minCPD-2605
8:49 pmNot stated26 minCPD-2605
10:06 pmNot stated16 minCPD-2605
11:25 pmNot stated13 minCPD-2605

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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