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  4. August 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Sunday 9 August 2026

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

13

drone flights over Arvada that day.

2:13 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:22 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 13 times on Sunday 9 August 2026, the first at 2:13 pm and the last at 10:22 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Call for service62%
  2. Training and testing8%
  3. Traffic and crashes8%
  4. Search8%
  5. Events8%
  6. Other8%

Flights, in order

13 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
2:13 pmCall for service10 min864527d0
4:14 pmTraining and testing2 min5199db2b
4:16 pmCall for service10 min471dfd90
4:53 pmTraffic and crashes9 min557c220c
5:24 pmCall for service18 min209b25ff
6:00 pmCall for service5 minb76401f6
6:19 pmCall for service3 min0ff21f07
6:47 pmCall for service7 min1cf8703d
7:47 pmCall for service18 min89668204
8:06 pmSearch16 mine07ff548
9:01 pmEvents13 min29ebba43
9:43 pmOther12 mind97d8d7b
10:22 pmCall for service7 mineb26f13f

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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