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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Saturday 8 August 2026

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

11

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:51 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 7:45 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 11 times on Saturday 8 August 2026, the first at 1:51 pm and the last at 7:45 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service36%
  2. Not stated36%
  3. Assisting another agency9%
  4. Other9%
  5. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

11 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
1:51 pmAssisting another agency10 mina3bf0d39
2:32 pmOther13 mine5f431cb
3:05 pmPatrol support9 mind2c27222
3:43 pmCall for service14 min9a352551
4:17 pmCall for service16 min823b3340
4:36 pmNot stated19 min13295292
4:58 pmNot stated16 min1f8fbf40
6:06 pmCall for service12 min5e0241d5
6:33 pmCall for service16 minfcacb760
7:08 pmNot stated12 minc8f27bc6
7:45 pmNot stated8 minf694f161

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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