13
drone flights over Arvada that day.
10:12 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:50 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Arvada police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 16 July 2026, the first at 10:12 am and the last at 9:50 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
11 listable flights; 2 with a sensitive stated purpose are counted above but not listed. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:12 am | Not stated | 14 min | 4b2abb5c |
| 1:58 pm | Training and testing | 8 min | bf4656a1 |
| 2:07 pm | Training and testing | 11 min | da3f59fb |
| 3:13 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 73c80606 |
| 3:41 pm | Assisting another agency | 15 min | 786323bf |
| 4:26 pm | Other | 9 min | 1dc9dd50 |
| 5:05 pm | Other | 3 min | 8dc0b894 |
| 6:24 pm | Other | 9 min | 2dd5e330 |
| 8:54 pm | Assisting another agency | 8 min | eb8db81d |
| 9:18 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 9fd7fce2 |
| 9:50 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 0c4d75af |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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