16
drone flights over Arvada that day.
2:20 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:46 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Arvada police drones flew 16 times on Friday 17 July 2026, the first at 2:20 pm and the last at 10:46 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
15 listable flights; 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:20 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 649eb071 |
| 2:41 pm | Other | 16 min | 938d29eb |
| 5:01 pm | Other | 3 min | 5caa6c4d |
| 5:07 pm | Call for service | 7 min | dc65b869 |
| 5:13 pm | Other | 16 min | 5bd512ff |
| 5:42 pm | Call for service | 13 min | bb3612b6 |
| 5:58 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 27 s | 1e47e54b |
| 6:42 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 20 s | 2949d5e5 |
| 7:21 pm | Other | 13 min | 5219d107 |
| 7:48 pm | Assisting another agency | 12 min | 66d05d6e |
| 8:04 pm | Other | 19 min | 15decd8b |
| 9:21 pm | Call for service | 17 min | fe1ed8f0 |
| 10:07 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 04b0c64c |
| 10:28 pm | Other | 17 min | 27820b1b |
| 10:46 pm | Other | 13 min | 2941dcfa |
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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