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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Thursday 18 June 2026

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

18

drone flights over Arvada that day.

12:52 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:07 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 18 June 2026, the first at 12:52 pm and the last at 10:07 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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. Other33%
  2. Training and testing28%
  3. Call for service17%
  4. Traffic and crashes11%
  5. Assisting another agency6%
  6. Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

18 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
12:52 pmOther9 mina12cc832
1:31 pmTraining and testing38 sf0440fb1
1:43 pmOther13 minf003147e
2:29 pmOther11 min8746d724
2:42 pmAssisting another agency7 min0dc09818
2:54 pmOther18 min712200cd
4:41 pmTraining and testing1 min 50 s9be8d6c2
4:50 pmOther7 min7bf93594
4:58 pmCall for service12 min05b4b2e6
5:30 pmPatrol support8 min57e762da
6:31 pmTraffic and crashes12 mindad49afe
6:55 pmCall for service13 min0643f3b5
7:14 pmOther13 mina4d550c2
8:33 pmTraffic and crashes8 minbd0e14cb
8:49 pmCall for service17 minaa25869c
9:39 pmTraining and testing3 min81f6d13b
9:49 pmTraining and testing10 minf098853f
10:07 pmTraining and testing4 minef705831

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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