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  4. July 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Tuesday 7 July 2026

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

16

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:48 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:25 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 7 July 2026, the first at 1:48 pm and the last at 10:25 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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 testing31%
  2. Other25%
  3. Call for service25%
  4. Not stated6%
  5. Assisting another agency6%
  6. Traffic and crashes6%

Flights, in order

16 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
1:48 pmOther19 minfdbeca3d
2:39 pmCall for service6 min79902476
3:14 pmNot stated9 min00f808a0
4:59 pmTraining and testing1 min 21 s73ece9c9
5:24 pmCall for service9 minc634ce45
5:46 pmCall for service14 min293a180c
6:12 pmOther19 mind7707098
6:32 pmAssisting another agency18 min647cd07b
7:36 pmOther13 min8c5fb8df
7:50 pmTraining and testing1 min 11 s27ee2256
7:54 pmTraining and testing45 s74e43b04
7:59 pmTraining and testing4 min5dfbb3cf
8:04 pmTraining and testing1 min 42 sc4cb87bf
9:09 pmOther14 mind9db04ad
9:28 pmTraffic and crashes5 mine8760b5a
10:25 pmCall for service13 min79f8a43e

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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