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  4. May 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Friday 29 May 2026

21 drone flights from Arvada Police Department's published record.

21

drone flights over Arvada that day.

7:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:42 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 21 times on Friday 29 May 2026, the first at 7:31 am and the last at 5:42 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing52%
  2. Other19%
  3. Traffic and crashes10%
  4. Assisting another agency10%
  5. Call for service5%
  6. Patrol support5%

Flights, in order

21 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 (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:31 amTraining and testing18 min29696c47
8:26 amTraining and testing5 min3552e55d
8:37 amTraffic and crashes17 mindf0c7a64
8:52 amOther17 min662dfde5
9:57 amTraining and testing5 min78362c2d
10:08 amTraining and testing8 min19c39e07
10:22 amTraining and testing9 mindeddb699
10:46 amTraining and testing4 min3dbc90ac
10:51 amOther16 min94ec295f
10:55 amCall for service17 minbf76b1ee
11:57 amTraining and testing8 min3a90978d
12:08 pmOther14 minf5bd1731
12:52 pmPatrol support20 minb2305a2d
1:20 pmTraining and testing7 min9f2f351c
1:31 pmAssisting another agency13 mind2f77ea4
1:38 pmAssisting another agency15 mina9d66395
1:50 pmTraffic and crashes19 min401c12ff
2:15 pmTraining and testing5 min531f3ed0
2:54 pmTraining and testing9 minf9122d68
3:10 pmOther7 min015abb1f
5:42 pmTraining and testing6 min936d9ec3

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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