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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Saturday 18 July 2026

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

14

drone flights over Arvada that day.

11:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:04 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 18 July 2026, the first at 11:59 am and the last at 10:04 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Other43%
  2. Call for service36%
  3. Assisting another agency14%
  4. Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

14 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
11:59 amOther19 min4233c224
12:21 pmOther14 min5d3c325f
1:13 pmAssisting another agency15 min69b22520
1:32 pmOther10 min1f81ae8e
1:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 38 s927d80d3
2:22 pmOther7 mina4a970f3
3:06 pmCall for service8 min3690e054
3:46 pmCall for service4 minff3cb2b3
4:06 pmCall for service14 min07ac7991
6:12 pmOther5 min74c3d7dc
7:52 pmCall for service14 min3452dc3a
8:52 pmCall for service8 minbb0d893d
9:11 pmOther13 min0ab3b098
10:04 pmAssisting another agency12 minfbc07013

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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